The Motive and the Cue
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius