Sherlock Holmes
The Great Pretender
When does acting stop and real life begin?
Murders for late December
Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series
Sherlock Holmes plays the white man
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist
Why Sherlock Holmes remains the greatest detective
There is no need to make Sherlock Holmes more likeable, part of his brilliance is in his ambiguity
The beauty of Jeremy Brett
Why any self-respecting heterosexual male needs a man-crush
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment