Tradition
Will COVID-19 make marriage fashionable again?
How couples have changed their views on marriage in a post-Covid world
Lost elysium of the Cambridge Backs
One of Britain’s most celebrated views will soon be dramatically changed
A belly full of agitpropera
Opera really doesn’t need the help of activist directors when it comes to politics — it’s all there already
Buck fizz
Patrick Galbraith describes the exhilaration of hunting
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms