Why so unserious?
Against the cult of relatability
What happened to shame?
Our politicians could do with feeling worse about themselves
A Vilnius descent
Progress only goes so far
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
