Ritual
Ancient rites in Madrid
The oldest of stories still attract us
Ritual, not pageantry
Understanding the Coronation
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
