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A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Most Read
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
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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers