Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Remove the kid gloves
“Votes for 16-year-olds” has exposed our incoherent attitude towards young people
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Not polling to be proud of
A study on Black Britons and national pride is based on unreliable stats
It’s not bullying, it’s criticism
Artists don’t have to be shielded from critics
Forcible separation
The child was the biggest victim in a tragic case
The inquiry industrial complex
What, if anything, do our investigations accomplish?
Rishi Sunak losing will be a blessed relief
The Conservatives should be put out of their misery
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Revive the roots
To save the Conservative Party, its chairman must return powers to the local associations
Eyes on the prizes — and the surprises
Every literary season has a book that comes from nowhere and seems to gallop ahead of the competition
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
A majority built on sand
Keir Starmer should not feel too triumphant — hard times lie ahead
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
Why did the Eye look away?
Surely a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals
