Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes