Jack Lever
45 seconds to midnight
Say what you will of nuclear war but at least, unlike this election, it’s mercifully brief
Technical problems
Rishi Sunak must be glad to face one problem that is absolutely not his fault
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
Critic election day special — William Clouston
We look at one of the election’s untold stories — the emergence of a revived SDP
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
The Conservative immigration betrayal
The Tories have delivered immigration on an absolutely unprecedented scale
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
The problem with the Celtic Fringe
Devolution has proved to be a disastrous mistake
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)