London Underground
Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
Can public art ever be any good?
Nobody could accuse Hockney of over-exerting himself
Hidden London
Hidden London’s evocative photos of dereliction will fascinate commuters and tourists alike
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
Boris in a bind
It is time for Tory MPs to do the only honourable thing
Another country
The tales that show how rural life has changed
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Earthly pleasures
The thrill of digging up — and eating — the first new potatoes of the year
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Sound and fury signifying nothing
The pomp of the Queen’s Speech failed to mask the flatness of it all
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
Rod Dreher comes home
The conscience of the New World is here in the Old
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s