Nationalism
War wounds of Polish history
Overcoming suffering can be a source of pride
Seven years in China
COVID, nationalism and Beijing walls
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death
The renewal of Englishness
Journalist Jason Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”
The power of flags
Even in a material age, symbols matter
St George didn’t die for this
English nationalism is a paper dragon
The romance of nationalism
National Conservatives are reclaiming nationalism — but which nationalism?
Who is a Ukrainian musician?
Music and ethnicity are both more complex than nationalism allows
A flag worth defending
Ukraine’s brave struggle reminds us of the importance of national patrimony
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
