Sandy Devereux
Smallscreen scriptwriter
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette