Modernity
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Bazball and the perils of “year zero” thinking
In cricket, as in politics, it is always wrong to dismiss past experience
The best-laid plans
A decade-old novel is worth reconsidering for how it addresses the questions of modernity
Why we have no new ideas
We appear to have reasoned our way into an intellectual dead end
Trapped in an identity crisis
The invention of identity is both a tragic and a universal story
A heap of broken images
A new book finds some clarity in our unstable world
A spiritual coming out
Rod Dreher’s “woo book” is a book the modern world needed
Chapel, chanting and chips
Visit these extraordinary communities before they disappear
Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
Dancing in the D’ARC
The right has to embrace the transformative potential of the Age of Trump
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble