Wandering women
The women who always walked alone
Do not go gently
Opera has treated the subject of cancelling the pleasures of others in some depth
Why are our leaders so useless?
We look in vain for direction or hope from the leaders of tomorrow
The divisiveness of Five Pillars
The UK’s chief website for British Muslim news sows more division than unity
Timelessness trumps timely
What we have is pure storytelling delight, a page-turner that works forwards and backwards as the reader fills in the gaps
The trial of the Mangrove Nine
Steve McQueen’s dramatisation of the 1970 trial of the Mangrove Nine is a triumph
From Gaucho to Rive Gauche and Back Again
Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Dominic Cummings’s 2020 vision
Why didn’t Dom do data?
The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon
The rise of Mrs Europe
A new EU is emerging. Will Ursula von der Leyen lead it to triumph or failure?
Hail to the Chief (Part III)
Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president was exercised in the first half of the twentieth century, from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR