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In the pink
The world’s best-value rosé
Should towns live forever?
Sometimes a place should be allowed to decline
Sadiq Khan’s hot air on housing
The London Plan is bad for the capital
Trust and the TERF wars
Why should feminists trust anyone again?
No debanking double standards
Claims of hypocrisy are evasive and wrong
Rishi is upset again
The PM’s in a massive sulk – maybe starting a new hedge fund would cheer him up?
Ned zero
Ed Miliband’s net zero plan makes no sense
Militant humourlessness
A pseudo-history of British comedy leaves one depressed
Slut-shaming Barbie
Dental woes and devoted dolls
An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished