Scam
The scammer in you
Sam Bankman-Fried is not unique
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
