Marianne Elliott
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Most Read
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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician