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He’s as mad as hell
The Speaker isn’t going to take it anymore – not from Boris at any rate.
The curious case of Dougie Smith
Who’s paying Mr Smith to do what?
Last orders
Is this the end of the hospitality industry?
WHO knows best
Why are we confusing ourselves with greek variant names?
Sagas to savour
Was Iceland responsible for the French Revolution, the moon landing and the discovery of America?
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Cancelling Christians
Billy Graham wouldn’t be welcomed into Britain today
Vitezlava Kapralova: Waving Farewell (Naxos)
The performances recorded here by the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra speak directly to some of our present confusions
Letter from Washington: Same old special relationship
Neediness has defined US-UK relations for 80 years
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
