Chasing rainbows
Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
