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Sarah Everard: The police must be held to account
By “othering” officers like Wayne Couzens, the Met absolves itself of all culpability and responsibility
Double-oh dear
How can Keir Starmer want a female James Bond when he can’t even define what a woman is?
A step change in sports policy
The UK Sports Councils’ new guidance on trans inclusion is a breath of fresh air
In China’s pocket
Tech UK is taking money from CCP-influenced tech giants to lobby UK politicians
The same old misogyny
A feminist student society has taken legal action against the Bristol Student Union for sanctioning their women-only spaces
Does AUKUS change Australia’s role in the Pacific?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the past and present of Australia’s role in the western alliance
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be
It’s not that life is perfect — it just isn’t the 70s
The very long arm of the law
It would be wrong to give British citizens more protection from extradition than foreigners
The satisfaction of small pleasures
The most anticipated book of the year, a Booker Prize nominee and a posthumous release: John Self on three new, big releases this month
Hit the road, Jack
It’s time for Villa fans to let Grealish go
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
