Monarchy
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
The abdication of responsibility
A monarch quitting undercuts the point of the institution they represent
Satan’s sedition
Liberty, license and Milton’s multifaceted allegory for Oliver Cromwell
Music fit for a king
The cliché of Britain as “the land without music” was disproved
Coronation in high definition
Confronting the mysteries of a sacred institution
Ghosts of British life
Remembering a forgotten past
Coronation sceptical
Against the tyranny of twee
Pray for the republicans
Rejoice in the sheer religiosity of the Coronation. It places the King above the political fray
Compulsory coronation?
Guardian columnists can’t stop telling us how little they care
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
