The Man Within
Expect Starmerism to make much more sense in practice than in theory
Crypto-art for cryptomillions
Digital art: the millennial trend
Uncovering the GRU
The GRU, Unit 29155 of Russia’s military intelligence service, is a remarkable failure of counterintelligence and politics from the West, says James Snell
Why you should add chess to your home school curriculum
It is strange to think that a piece of wood on a board can be so emblematic of what it means to be human
Blurred history
Britpop has a bad reputation for stolid, white-boy basicness now, but it’s not a reputation Parklife deserves
Hungarian Serenade (Naxos)
The outstanding Offenburg String Trio play a gripping compilation of some of the most richly coloured and painfully consequential music you are ever likely to hear
The thinning khaki line
What does the defence command paper reveal about Britain’s priorities for its armed forces?
Faith in the voters
Boris’s secret is not treating the electorate like depressing raw material
The Mumford memory hole
The parallels between the latest incident of cancel culture and George Orwell’s 1984 are uncanny
What is the case against Maya Forstater?
An employment judge may not believe sex is immutable — but will the appeal tribunal agree?
Keep politics out of the courts
It’s not for judges to say whether witnesses should have answered MPs’ questions