The Netherlands
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
To win the war, stop fighting
Drug cartels and the underground economy fear legalisation and deregulation
The birds and the beef
Far from being an ecological enemy, cattle-grazing encourages natural diversity and helps in the battle to save some of our most endangered species
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
Proud to be free?
Liberal Britain’s new blasphemy laws
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
Surviving the love of a psychopath
Norman Scott gets the last word against the man who raped and plotted to murder him
Children’s mental health crisis
Using our kids to virtue signal adult politics fuels anxiety and depression
Why are republicans such “sour-faced Puritans”?
Opponents of the monarchy are also suspected of hating Christmas, puppies and the sound of children’s laughter
Unreal liberalism for an unreal world
Individualism looks very different to the lives it excludes and discards
De-Goulding: an incomplete coda
Part two of Mahan Esfahani’s deconstruction of the modern association of pianist Glenn Gould with Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Too dangerous to live with
There’s no realist case for the lurking risk of nuclear armageddon