Artillery Row
A rare victory for proportion
The connotations of words can depend on their context, numpties
A penetrating performance
Shostakovich 15th symphony (BR-Klassik)
The Philistines versus the Pharisees
How the rise of the meritocrats tore society in two
Strings attached
How politics orchestrates contemporary classical music
When will they ever learn?
Silicon Valley did not need a Victorian transport system to get it started
Black Bag is refreshingly good
The characters are well-drawn and every performance is terrific
The British right will not be socially conservative
Like it or loathe it, Brits are liberal
It’s the phones, stupid
How can we help books to compete with YouTube and Instagram?
Meghan Markle is not the problem
Hate her all you want, but Meghan didn’t make the rules
Why won’t Malthouse compromise?
The leading cheerleaders for Assisted Suicide can’t accept fair criticism
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence