Monarchy
The King’s touch
What Diana and French philosophy can teach us about the need for monarchy
The Queue
A strange and wonderous thing
The Crown down under
Is Australia still a sceptered isle?
Protest and the public good
Republicanism, free speech and the heckler’s veto
The Queen’s place in history
Professor Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about Queen Elizabeth II’s place in British history
The return of the sacred
The British monarchy is defying secular modernity
France and the Queen
A sense of what was lost
Long to have reigned over us
For 70 years Queen Elizabeth II brought dignity and grace to public life
God save the Queen
Britain will never be the same
The power of the pageant
Our enchanted, sometimes absurd, monarchy is one of the last focuses of common cultural experience
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
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation