The Times
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Turning the tables on coercion?
Lord Walney’s report on political extremism is valuable if flawed
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Is fat a feminist issue?
Accepting your body is a selective exercise for some progressives
Slaying gay culture
How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
