Literature
The writings of Lewis and Tolkien embody conservative environmentalism
The Conservative party were once the country party. They could be again. It might even net them some votes
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
Brideshead Revisited, Revisited
Compared to his peers, Evelyn Waugh has not had the range or quality of adaptations that he deserves
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
Sean Connery: the man beyond Bond
Who was the “real” Sean Connery?
The dictionary of the demagogues
In the dictionary of the demagogues there is only a single word: obey
Flirting with damnation
As Greene explained to his wife when their marriage ended, what made him a bad husband was precisely what made him a good writer
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
