Sordid ambiguities come with being human

His new social media campaign is an exhibition of his dynamic cultural contradictions.

The Hundred Years War is our chronicle and crucible

In cutting ties with the firm, literary festivals have fallen prey to the worst sort of playground bully.

The raucous national culture which made him is fading

Today's by-elections mark the end of the Johnson era

Its nihilism speaks for us all

Easy highs have become a national addiction.

We're sick of sanctimony culture

Martin Amis was the laureate of toxic masculinity

The photograph of a bloodied Trump has turned him into a hero and captured the carnage of American politics.

The euphoria of their music has been taken up by a new generation.

Young voters are demanding a new radicalism from politics.

A new leader must help them rebuild their lives

Palestinians are the only victims that matter

Saltburn's world of flamboyant aristocrats is dead

Renters are engaged in a new class conflict

Review 31 is an online literary review.

We are fortunate to have someone writing and thinking her way with such intelligence into the corners of experience and contestation

Review 31 is an online literary review.

Crime, violence and a serial abuser stalked Marsh Farm

From schools to prisons, our state is crumbling

Around halfway through Navalny, its star and subject is asked about his well-known history of attending far-Right rallies. Visibly irritated, Navalny suggests they consult his previous interviews on...

Capitalism is exploiting man's deepest fears

The Little Englander still shows that socialism can have a human face

Forget the Ashes – our team must look to CLR James for salvation

There is a rich, but uneven, English tradition of cosmopolitan artsy types shouldering their travelling pack and setting out to take the temperature of the provincial realm. It is part of a noble-m...

Erik Davis forecast our era of mystic ecstasy

The Left has given up on usurping capitalism

Ben Judah's uneven history of Europe has moments of thrills and revelation. But focusing on the stories of people living and working on the Continent - and beyond - leaves the narrative prone to...

With the Conservative Party intellectually exhausted, a very-online vanguard is trying to refresh right-wing thought – but how much of it is actually new?

He flayed his ego for the sake of art

Britain's gerontocrats would rather live in a TV show

'The Chief' by Andrew Roberts describes a newsman with an eerie anticipation of modern media

The Times has discovered that bookshops are no longer bookshops. In a horrific story today, Britain’s paper of record announced that Foyles’s Bristol branch has “got rid of its fiction section”, with...

Rainfall and narrative incoherence marred an ambitious international parade.

Last night, at the London Palladium, two and a half thousand people attended a séance. Packed in from stalls to rafters, they were there to mourn, remember, and, however briefly, reconjure the hope...

​​As Eric Hobsbawm so correctly and acutely observed, much of the tradition we take for granted in Britain, most of the pomp and ceremony and circumstance of our cultural existence, is invented. Far...

An elite by inheritance still holds sway but it has been joined by an elite of grafters.

The promise made to the voters of 2019 has been betrayed.

Her conservative video campaign is a lame appeal to the populist right.

The radical seer Ivan Illich certainly thought so

We have failed to relight the unique fires of 2021.

Punishing the workers won't save the planet

D.H. Lawrence didn't champion the Sexual Revolution

This nation is left with no choice but to memorialise our losses as victories.

An explosion of mushroom-cloud hair. The mangy, unshaven face, with its pursed, smirky lips. The baggy, flickering eyes, usually the tell-tale of an Xbox all-nighter. Sam Bankman-Fried will reappear...

Before Michael Gove it was Ken Clarke. And before him, threading back through modern British history, there was Roy Jenkins, and Barbara Castle, and Anthony Crosland and RAB Butler. If, as he implied...

In the tradition of 1066 And All That, our understanding of the Norman Conquest is often quite light-hearted, a Bayeux Tapestry comic strip of rival claimants and arrows in eyes.

The Great Escaper is the last gasp of a creation myth

The Just Stop Oil revolution is failing

Looking back, I wonder what all the fuss was about

Ramsay MacDonald was a paragon of competence and compromise

The party's homeland has been left to decay

His account of Luton misrepresents the town and people I knew.

Where are the punks or Teddy Boys of today?

For some former parliamentarians, the return to civilian life is almost euphoric.

Fancy a lesson on an abstruse point of classical music? Or 104 minutes on the MMR jab controversy? Meet the intellectual YouTubers

Sathnam Sanghera can't escape the present

Marxism 2023 was a festival of frustration

In America, the climate transition has yet to benefit workers.

Denis Johnson exposed the conceit of adventurism

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a Roman circus

‘Male writers now are the opposition party, and that may not be such a bad thing for them.’ So Rob Doyle writes in this addictive self-portrait/collection of reviews. And if male writers are now in...

His progressive vision of nationhood should not be forgotten.

The newspaper’s election showdown produced a hostile crowd.

The debate over the Prime Minister’s background is a reflection of bourgeois neuroses.

It must feel surreal to live in the shadow of a famous ancestor: to be met with curious eyebrows whenever you make your introductions, and to be badgered about whether you are a descendant of the...

The King's experimental town is a victim of its success

The government is still struggling to rehabilitate itself

Sunak and Truss should learn from his vices

Nicholas Harris: A Stitch in Time - The Falling Thread by Adam O’Riordan

Transgression has been tamed by fear

We were promised control of our own borders after Brexit. This is what the government has decided to do with it

Nicholas Harris: Digital Vampires & Horny Sea Horses - Open Up by Thomas Morris