Ross Douthat
Decadence in the time of corona: A conversation with Ross Douthat
The New York Times columnist updates his arguments for a country rocked by pandemic and protest
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
