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
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
