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Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
Pleasures of sex and berries
Hart explains why we’re adapted to the environment we evolved in, rather than the one we inhabit
John Williams in Vienna (DG)
Zero stars for the vacuous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
Could Harry and Meghan have learnt from Edward and Wallis?
Graham Stewart and Alexander Larman discuss how the House of Windsor adapts and endures
In search of Old Mistresses
The National Gallery is putting women artists centre stage
Anyone for abdication?
A vivid retelling of an infamous constitutional crisis
The wrong sort of women
View from Oxford: some new arrivals may feel less welcome than others
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
