The attack on Salman Rushdie highlights a growing cancer
The politics of free expression have changed in the past 30 years. The practice of seeking retribution for causing ‘offence’ is widespread
The early death of Zulu star Stanley Baker is one of cinema's great ‘what ifs’
Commanding and rugged, the Welsh actor could have saved 1980s British cinema from naffness. Instead, hard living took him at 48
Gustave Eiffel’s tower was at the cutting edge of modernity – no wonder the French hated it
Created a decade before New York's first real skyscrapers, the tower was a radical feat of engineering, but outraged Paris's cultural elite
There is nothing Conservative about Rishi Sunak’s record
His promises are undermined by the cost of living crisis and record tax burden he helped create
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Will any cellist ever match Jacqueline du Pré?
Jacqueline du Pré’s 1965 account of the Elgar Cello Concerto makes any later recording of it redundant
The most important political book that nobody has read (yet)
Penny Mordaunt's 2021 book Greater: Britain after the Storm claims to be a manifesto to heal a divided nation, but is it just PR bluster?
Arnold Bennett should be remembered for more than an omelette
It’s time to rescue one of England’s most successful novelists from the dish that hijacked his name
With the utmost respect, Stephen Fry, you are helping turn cricket into a totalitarian state
Cricket’s cultural conservatives are not prehistoric monsters – all I, and plenty like me, ask is for our point of view to be accommodated
Peter Sellers was British comedy's greatest chameleon
He may be most famous for the Pink Panther films and Dr Strangelove, but Sellers's early British movies were some of his funniest work
This isn’t Britain’s 1937 moment. It’s far worse than that
We must spend more on warfare – not welfare – if the British Army is to combat Putin’s threats of violence
Why have the Tories stopped talking about growth?
Somehow, the party of business and enterprise has turned into the party of welfarism – and thrown away their reputation for sound finance
How long before Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte is cancelled?
Garsington’s production of the composer's Carry On-like opera is top-class – but feminists may struggle with its fickle women
The startling collapse of the blue wall
The moral and ethical failings of senior Conservatives are among the many reasons why their safest seats are in danger
Henry Kissinger’s tips for aspiring world leaders – based on his intimate acquaintance with six
From Nixon to Mrs Thatcher, the 99-year-old knew personally all the case studies in his new book Leadership, but it's still not an easy read
TV’s hypocritical trigger warnings reveal a hidden double-standard
Old classics are being tampered with needlessly while new dramas come laced with profanities. Who is to blame?
When will we stop writing brilliant women out of music history?
A revelatory new recording of Ina Boyle's symphonies strikes the latest blow in the battle to give music's female innovators their due
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