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The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon
Trusting Dave Chappelle
The comedian’s 8:46 show is a stand-up special with few jokes
American puritanism lives on
Judge not a sext lest your sexts be judged
Scrapping for space
Nick Cohen says hamfisted Covid road closures are dividing opinion
The new F-word
Hannah Betts on the latest bête noire for Generation Z
The great indoors
Don’t scoff at the fad for houseplants says Hephzibah Anderson
Boris fights a strawman
BREAKING: strawman wins
Is this the end of Farage’s political career?
If Nigel Farage manages to buy talkRADIO, it would rule him out of frontline politics
Year’s mind: James Small and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
ASH Smyth reflects on South Africa’s historic 1995 Rugby World Cup win
Play for Today celebrates its 50th birthday
Play for Today was a milestone in the history of TV drama
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
