Swiss cheese
Milly Ffyne shares an excellent but dispiriting fondue in the alpine haunt of the international jet set
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
