Artillery Row

The great blue north

Canadian Tories are not just electing a new leader — they’re fighting over the soul of their party

The Bard of Balliol

Never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account

Doubling down, not levelling up

Why Gove’s plan is dead on arrival

Post-hate policing

Deprived of non-crime incidents, how will the hate crime industry recover?

Hans Werner Henze: Night pieces and arias (Naxos)

Why are so many in the dark about Germany’s leading musical light?

What a piece of work is man

Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods

The cult of the father

A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Sink Michael Gove’s Irish Sea border

The NIP is destroying the Belfast Agreement before it’s even fully implemented

Johnson’s better angel takes flight

Munira Mirza was the Prime Minister’s indispensable foil

When is a bot not a bot?

Answer: when it’s a feminist