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What is the secret of Labour’s success?
Is there a dark secret that Labour delegates know but must never share?
“I spoilt my ballot because women don’t have penises”
Labour needs politicians with the balls — or ovaries — to speak the truth on women’s sex-based rights
Kill them with kindness
Extreme gender ideology encourages women to shut up and be nice
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
One big Anglo family
The other Europeans Irish share the most in common with … are the British
Brighton crock
Starmer struggles to speak his mind – about his own party
Out of the blue
Despite some political hang-ups, James Fox provides diverting stories on the history of colour
Just add water
The Hampstead Heath ponds offer a recipe for the perfect summer afternoon
The strange death of the CDU
The decline of Angela Merkel’s party may return Germany to a Weimar-style splintered parliament
The vanishing university
From Oxford to Edinburgh, Bristol to Liverpool, the story is the same: online interaction is here to stay
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
