Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.