Society
Take a leaf out of sport’s book
Music has lost its unpredictability, its thrilling fear while sport’s passion shines, says Norman Lebrecht
The idealisation of everyday life
Natascha Engel delves into Marc Stears’s new book, and asks: is there anything in here that will help us rebuild the Red Wall without losing our big city majorities?
Shock of the new
People are terrified of modernity’s great gift: the sudden freedom to make appalling noise, says Robert Thicknesse
Derailing the gravy train
The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena
The gay anti-Nazi brotherhood
In recognising the threat Hitler posed and swimming against the tide of public opinion, the glamour boys defied the stereotypes
Public Enemy Number whatever
Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate
Did Gaullism save France?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968
France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about what made French politics and society distinctive in the decades before and after WWI
Sharing the great American dream
The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett
The comings and goings of “Club Cupido”
Dominic Hilton recalls the cast of characters at a Buenos Aires club de barrio
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
