The Shining (Film)
Why does The Shining still scare us?
A large part of its appeal revolves around a simple fact, it is utterly terrifying
A Boxing Day treat
It’s Boxing Day — and that means it’s the King George VI Chase at Kempton
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch