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The horror! The horror!
Claudia Savage-Gore dreads the double hell of two PTA events
Repeatable offers
For a limited time only?
King Ratter
Patrick Galbraith hunts with a terrier brought back from the brink
Pleasure and pain
Nick Cohen says the runner’s hardest task is knowing when to stop
Another Country
Fiona Duncan loves hotels that do things differently
Unleash this heavenly voice
The role of music in Jewish worship has acquired a sudden topicality with the involvement of two major record labels
Less austerity, more pizazz
Grand opera was long thought quite dead but is suddenly rearing its shaggy head again
Calculated absurdity
I want to listen to music that sounds like the dumb hopefulness of being young that I once couldn’t wait to rid myself of, says Sarah Ditum
The gender discount
Women may now account for 64 per cent of fine arts graduates in Britain but research shows the old values remain entrenched, says Michael Prodger
Blessed plot – or maybe not
“Albion” takes up the challenge of the moving goalposts of Brexit and social and economic fragmentation, says Anne McElvoy
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun