My Fair Lady
Steel works
Beth Steel’s House of Shades is a confident new nod to the tradition of multi-generation family sagas
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
