The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
