Robert Pattinson
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
