16 Jan 2020 - 12:00am

Raise your glass to Roger Scruton, the terroiriste The great philosopher's love affair with Burgundy had much in common with his conservatism and love of place

Giles Fraser

13.01

Roger Scruton: Conservative lodestar The great philosopher gave Conservatism its head and heart, guiding the party to a great victory last year

Danny Kruger

10.01

Why Schitt’s Creek is a parable for the good life If you lost everything you ever valued, how would you find meaning?

Libby Emmons

09.01

Freud would know why we’re all workaholics Our culture of overwork is a means of running away from the inevitable descent into nothingness

Giles Fraser

09.01

Like the 1920s, the 2020s will be an age of anxiety Below the surface, the first 'modern decade' was an era of increasing worry about the future

Richard Overy

09.01

John Clare, poet of the Somewheres The politics of the Peasant Poet feel unexpectedly fresh and increasingly urgent today

Mary Harrington

08.01

How Trump handed victory to Qasem Soleimani The killing of the Iranian general has polarised the Iraqi Shia against America — and ceded martyrdom to a murderer

Maurice Glasman

03.01

What’s the point of civil partnerships? Let’s not pretend that cancelling marriage will eradicate the power imbalances of sexual politics

Giles Fraser

03.01

In praise of failed resolutions A reminder of our imperfections can spur us on to greater things

Polly Mackenzie

25.12

Why aren’t we all atheists? Francis Spufford's book, <i>Unapologetic</i>, makes the case for God in terms of feelings

Elizabeth Oldfield

12.12

Can our shattered nation survive this election? The act of voting feels less like an act of communal solidarity than an angry tribal denunciation of the other side

Giles Fraser

05.12

Spare us the bedtime morality tales Reading to your children is an opportunity to fire up imaginations, not an ideological battleground

Giles Fraser