The Victorians
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Don’t exploit Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Her legal triumph should be the start and not the end of the reckoning
