Artillery Row
Murders for March
Celebrity killings, Victorian mysteries, and murders on the high seas
You can’t improve on Schubert
Franz Schubert: Orchestral Songs, 9th symphony (Chandos)
Who is to blame for Badenoch?
Her failure should have been foreseen
The return of “wait your turn”
Women’s rights are still being unjustly dismissed as marginal or petty
What does it mean to be English?
Questions about ethnicity and identity cannot be huffed and puffed away
Time to get real on Ukraine
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole of Ukraine, and yet loses the balance of power?
Welcome to the jungle
It’s Bezos’s market, you’re just living in it
On “Festen” and forgetting
The latest production of the Royal Opera was gripping but occasionally unconvincing
How whistleblowers stood up for liberal women
The Liberal Democrats have changed course on its gender-critical members
By the right, long march
How Reform can stand alone and seize the political advantage
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants