Test Cricket
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
Sexy simplicity
For February, try a palette cleanse
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
