On the radar
A fresh telling of a largely forgotten slice of wartime history
DegreeStoppers
Call DegreeStoppers now – if your tip leads to a conviction, you could receive a postgraduate diploma
The curious case of the Case
Boris Johnson haunted a cagey performance by leading civil servants
Stop the bores
Excuses leakier than the Portcullis House roof
Which hunters?
An unconvincing display from Johnsonian loyalists
Not quite Utopia
Sunak’s on strike and there’s trouble in Tory paradise
A sticky wicket
Rishi Sunak has trouble playing, and delivering, spin
Same as the old Conservatives
Partying like it’s 2019
Tech bro summer
Can AI save Rishi’s bacon?
Water they doing?
Rebecca Pow was unconvincing on the threat to Thames Water
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
