British intellectual magazine featuring essays on politics, culture, and ideas.
Power in the UK is not determined by your schooling or your bank account Source
The role offers too much power with too little accountability Source
The article explores the cultural significance and evolution of iconic fairy and elf characters like Tinker Bell, Puck, and Dobby, examining their impact on storytelling and popular imagination.
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood's reforms point towards a more continental model of policing Source
Peter Glanz's Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence Source
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region Source
For the best in Europe, learn how to travel like a rich native Source
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense Source
Tom Rolt, whose rescue of the Talyllyn Railway provided a model of how we can stand up to the homogenistion of our culture Source
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment Source
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity Source
Andy Burnham must get a grip on spending rather than squeezing the taxpayer Source