Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
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
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Tinker Bell, Puck, Dobby & Co.
An account of everything even the most dedicated fairy-follower could want to discover