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Boris giveth and Boris taketh away
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own
Cancelling mad men
What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?
Is “Net Zero” achievable?
Steve Baker discusses with David Scullion the cutting of carbon emissions
The actors quitting Equity
Racism is perfectly acceptable so long as it’s the fashionable type
Independent minds
Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work
Rob Hutton hasn’t a clue what he’s doing
All cynics need the chewing gum of romance
Redrawing boundaries
The constituency boundary review is in, and it makes for very long reading
Trans activist’s car crash interview
Repeating “no debate” for years has left these organisations unable to answer questions
You probably don’t have PTSD
The danger of self-diagnosis
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
No room for reform?
We should hope that even the worst people can change
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
