Modern Classics
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain