Walter Raleigh
Taking down the past
The ahistoricism of Labour’s leaders is worse than ignorant. It is deliberate
Most Read
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever