Artillery Row
Britain needs honesty more than genius
It’s not rocket surgery: a (partial) defence of Kemi Badenoch
Is anyone following the leader?
The Conservatives have a long way to go before winning back relevance
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
Bad medicine
How the Guardian’s favourite doctor ruined his healthy reputation
We must get serious about school absence
It is not acceptable for so many children to miss so much of their education
Don’t trust the BBC on America
The Beeb has been entranced by the siren song of US-style polarisation
A lot to Bragg about
Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time” has been a rare civilised outpost at the BBC
Shipbuilding and Space are a British success story
How to buck the national trend of failure
Free for me but not for thee
It’s tricky stuff, this freedom of expression
Viral outrages
Why has a random act of murder captured the attention of the internet?
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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
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive