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Modern Life

We Shouldn’t Let Old Men Rot Away In Jail
As the prison population ages, more and more elderly, often disabled inmates are left in their cells, unable to cope yet fearful of release
Peter Stanford

Don’t Pit Generations Against Each Other
Whatever the economic inequalities between baby boomers and millennials, there has never been a better time to be young
Constance Watson

Baffle Us — But Don’t Bore Us
Conceptualism was briefly a vital response to commercialism in modern art. Then it ran out of ideas
Michael Prodger

Writers In Residence
"The only thing worse than living in the mausoleum of a dead writer is living with a bunch of living ones"
Dominic Green

Political Playpen
"Social justice" and the New Left's takeover of academic institutions
Dominic Green

Hard To Swallow
The dangerous new culture of brunch
Constance Watson

Money Can’t Buy Us Love: Profiting From Loneliness
From ‘flirt coaches’ and seminars on finding your soulmate to mail-order brides, falling in love has never been more commercialised   
Julie Bindel

The Symphony: A Moral Vision Revealed In Music
Beethoven set the bar impossibly high but composers like myself still regard it as the ultimate challenge
James MacMillan

Why ‘Lady Chatterley’ Still Provokes Us
On the set of the BBC’s recent adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel, I realised that his most controversial book is as important as ever
Catherine Brown

Our Island’s Storytelling
How Britain discovered a lucrative new role as a global cultural powerhouse
Robert Low

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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