Why Labour needs a rural reset
Andy Burnham must be more supportive of rural life than his predecessor
The Red Sea rules the Red Wall
The bond market does not care about levelling up, devolution or Manchester. It cares about oil, inflation and the Strait of Hormuz
Missionaries, not management consultants
As trust in the Church of England collapses, its leaders are prescribing more of the very managerialism that created the problem
Reform’s constitutional quandary
What could Reform UK do about the House of Lords?
It’s time for Fifexit
Ed Davey is right — the FA and UEFA should quit FIFA
Not-so Natural England
Supposedly neutral institutions are increasingly behaving like anti-shooting campaign bodies
Tome policing
Why are university administrators advising academics to get rid of their books?
The Boriswave is here to stay
Labour’s internal row over settlement was always theatre; the destination was permanent residency all along
In praise of Pixar
The animation studio produces surprisingly sound as well as entertaining films
Time to scrap the smoking ban
Intolerance, not smoking, is what should be considered irrational and unpleasant
The Creasy calamity
Politicians have to stop being so intolerant when it comes to disrespect
Why Devon is saying no to a data centre
It would transform the local environment, and the local economy, for the worse
Starmer’s Indian takeaway
The Government’s India trade deal makes hiring imported workers significantly cheaper than employing British ones
A plan to save our towns
Time for a renaissance in our devastated urban landscape
The man who defied the ministry
Tom Rolt, whose rescue of the Talyllyn Railway provided a model of how we can stand up to the homogenistion of our culture
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Will there be an election?
Electoral maths and the human factor make it a lot less likely
The mistakes of marriage reform
New reforms to wedding laws are actually dangerously regressive
Haydn in the light
Joseph Haydn: Piano sonatas (Signum/Pentatone)
The free market delusion
The British economy won’t be saved by economic ideologues
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The great pandemic
How survivors attempted to understand their ordeal and rebuild their lives after the disease receded
An unholy shambles
The Fifth Crusade: A History of the Epic Campaign to
Conquer Egypt by Thomas Smith
Stumbling in the light
J.D. Vance has written a revealing book, for better and for worse
Cosmonaut thriller is absolutely stellar
Strong characters drive Star City forward in an increasingly paranoid hothouse of fear, betrayal and adultery
A triumphant return
Jesus Christ Superstar, the London Palladium
Love on manoeuvres
La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
At a pinch
On snuff and its accoutrements
Shooting the breeze
Patrick Galbraith welcomes an ambitious new shoot tenant
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food