Something in the Bath water
Liberal Democrats are ruining a beautiful city with pointless regulations and Remainer spite
Flourish we must
British conservatives must focus on action over rhetoric
Sunak drifts towards irrelevance
The PM seems to have no ambitions beyond not being Liz or Boris
Deep England
Glastonbury isn’t just for leftists
Against British decline
How can we hold the nation together?
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
