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Durrell dissected
Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945 by Michael Haag
Why I’m defecting to Reform
The Conservative Party has failed Britain
On snatching a phone
We should all take steps to resist anti-social behaviour
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
Controversial claims to genius
The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers by Helen Lewis
Reform’s uncut fringe
The party’s lunatic element is still in good health
A Reformed Britain — if you can govern it
Reform must become a governing party if it is to survive
A tale of two conferences
The camp tone of the Reform conference masks genuine political seriousness
Against lifestylism
Begging the state to fix the symptoms of societal dysfunction is the politics of losers
Eco-populism is both silly and dangerous
It will not have mass appeal but it could radicalise people
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm