Liverpool, lies and France’s shame
The Stade de France fiasco bodes ill for forthcoming international sports events
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?
Save this Severn heaven
A property developer has an idyllic and precious plotland development in his sights
Send in the spivs
War offers so much more in the way of profitable procurement than even the pandemic
Beyond the floppy fringe
It’s no laughing matter that our grotesque, contemptible political class is so out of touch
Tacsi for a moribund language
Why condemn a million Welsh people to a parochial linguistic straitjacket?
The road to Book Pyre Beacon
The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance
Le Pétain nouveau
France should look across the Channel before electing a journalist as president
Guru of regurgitation
Time for self-styled “design guru” Stephen Bayley to move on from his erstwhile mentor, monstrous Sir Tel
Storm in a frying pan
The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture
Bring back Victorian YIMBY-ism
We cling to the buildings our 19th century forebears left behind, but they would decry our squeamishness
Is the Union breaking up?
Nationalist parties have a vested interest in falling short of independence
Who is feminism for?
A controversial new book argues that gender-critical feminism is bigger than the trans debate
A madman’s guide to Wagner
You don’t have to be crazy to enjoy Wagner, but it helps
Rod Dreher comes home
The conscience of the New World is here in the Old
A Commons grilling
Boris vs Keir once again provides more heat than energy
Trans activist makes a fuss without facts
Trans people in the UK have all the same rights, and a few more besides
The final furlong
Horse racing is in existential crisis
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer
The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
Ukraine war is not an example of “toxic masculinity”
History suggests that female rulers are far more likely to start wars than their male counterparts