Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Putting politics at the heart of everything
The NHS should care about patients, not ideology
Drum fast, die young?
Taylor Hawkins is not the only drummer to meet with an early grave
In defence of good grammar
Why Angela Rayner needs to stop torturing our language
Auntie’s quota-led new faces
The BBC risks putting social justice over excellence
Maybe not Yes
With only two remaining members from the classic 70s lineup, a lot is riding on the band’s new album The Quest
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
The magic of Dawn Chorus
On International Dawn Chorus Day, there really is no sound lovelier than the competing noise of birdsong
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
