What Would Andy Do?
The Burnham wishlist turns out to perfectly match that of the median Labour member
Mandelson: Let’s chat about Keir…
Leadership speculation, the Turquoise Wave and no hard feelings
Donkey work
The prime minister is rather less than a natural orator
F.I.B.S.
Why do the MSM keep reporting the words that Farage says?
They can’t really mean this
The Long Walk is a film for a Trumpian time of delight in random public cruelty
Flattering the beast
For now, the kingdom has bought off the monster
The man who made us melt
Robert Redford was a charismatic actor and a masterful storyteller
Slingers and arrows
One man decided to hold the pass
Divorced, Defected, Danny!
Have a little faith
Brad Pitt has the formula for success
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages