Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children