Artillery Row
If something’s not working
Kemi remains totally confident in the demonstrably untrue
We need to talk about Islamic antisemitism
For too long, a major problem has been ignored or obscured
Music for troubled souls
NIGUN (SWR Music)
An entertaining oddity
If you can see past the water-based sex, The Lady From The Sea is worth watching
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
Murders for October
Brazil in the 1930s, France in the 1940s and Britain in the 1950s
Paddington: The Musical is an abomination
Bond would be rolling in his grave if he could see what has been done to his character
Some friendly ad voice
The perils of picking a celebrity to speak on your commercial
The conservative case for Sarah Mullally
Anything that hastens the death of the Church of England should be welcomed
The lanyard class Archbishop
Sarah Mullally is the pure distilled essence of everything wrong with the Church of England
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign