Twentieth Century
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
The grand old man and the ingénue queen
The devotion between Britain’s wartime premier and its greatest modern monarch
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell