nostalgia
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?
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
