nostalgia
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
My war stories
The role of the war film in British cinema
Who’s afraid of the 1950s?
Romanticism can be radical tool for positive change
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
