Irony
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Make a bonfire of Dr Seuss
Titania McGrath on how book burning is the only way to defeat fascism
Town vs clown
Claudia Savage-Gore baulks at the idea of decamping to the shires
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
