Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind