Susanna Clarke
Dividing Germany
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the emergence of rival Germanys after the Second World War
Timelessness trumps timely
What we have is pure storytelling delight, a page-turner that works forwards and backwards as the reader fills in the gaps
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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 enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
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
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane