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Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism