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This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion