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Riddles to resolve
Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues (Pentatone)
The life and death of Queer Art
Queer culture turns to nostalgia and death
Does Nick Clegg believe in Original Sin?
The former Lib Dem leader haltingly points us to the true nature of the human heart
The rise of Essex
For the future of English wine, go east, young man!
The past in pictures
Twelve manuscripts, read and re-read over eight centuries, can tell the heart of medieval Britain
Bring back the cycling proficiency test
How better to bestow proper cycling etiquette upon the immigrant delivery population?
Time to end amateur justice
Magistrates are a bunch of credential-seeking amateurs
When the Nazis occupied Britain
When necessary engagement becomes collaboration is an unspoken question
No, I am definitely not OKA
Braving the Pan Asian Fusion Cuisine of OKA so you don’t have to
Why DEI is in decline
Every idea has its day
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”