Local History
Sebastian Mode
Provincial arts administrator
Rambling through Chesham and Amersham
Each constituency has a unique and fascinating history
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles