Morality
Beware the shaming and guilt-tripping bingefest
Events in the US have led to a(nother) moment of reckoning for race relations spawning a similar gamut of emotions, some justified, other less so
Jane’s profound piety
Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer
The language of Conservative priorities
Why does Boris want marriage to be a contract-at-will?
The Idea of a twenty-first century University
Newman’s Idea of The University imagined by Jeremy Black and William Gibson for the modern world
Sheikh up the Telegraph
We are fortunate that the UAE still wishes to invest in so unstable a country
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
