Language
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning
States of uncertainty
How should we define “Central Europe?”
No word should be inherently unsayable
Context matters — whatever the language police might say
Why many Ukrainians have stopped speaking Russian
Ukraine’s culture, as well as its people and land, needs defending
Working people
The latest innovation of the nomenklatura class and their apparatchik subordinates
How speech flowered from an ancient root
Connective tissue between Classical Western and Indian languages
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border