Artillery Row

The eternal lockdown of the soul

Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state

A leadership bid you can’t refuse

Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive

Their generation

How young rockers became venerable sages

Cynical in Venezuela

The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul

Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?

He does not have the right ambition and imagination

March of the guys

How did one honorific colonise our language?

Enthralling eclecticism

Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)

Stolen moments

Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world

Murders for September

British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East

Defending an outdoor smoke

There is no rational argument for prohibition