Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
The hounding of a poet and teacher
Communism is the only guarantee of human happiness
Keeping in tune with the Times
Radio Times has become the mouthpiece of the BBC’s re-education unit
A farewell to a brilliant broadcaster
Melvyn Bragg has declared his innings closed after 27 years
England’s glory
On his return to Yorkshire, Len Hutton was dubbed a knight of the realm
Please, no more “counter-culture”
The voice honed by experience is more necessary now than ever
The BBC’s fanfare for a fanatic
Radio 4 flatters the Lancasters of this world and patronises the Connollys
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?