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?
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
