Artillery Row
Et tu, Anas?
McSweeney is out — and so are the knives
Neither good nor serious
Against the Lost Cause Myth of Starmerism
Who gets to be British?
Jeevun Sandher’s attempt to declare Matt Goodwin “not very British” reveals a shallow, ahistorical and politically convenient vision of the nation
Pedro Sánchez is not the saviour of the left
The Spanish prime minister has built a model based on maintaining a minority government at any cost
Call for the King
Why the Restoration and Renewal Programme is mad, bad, dangerous for Parliament and must be stopped
The genre that came in from the cold
Why we love spy fiction
A cherishable dream
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Hyperion)
Murders for February
More murders, from Newcastle to the Norfolk Broads
Don’t make parents pay for pints
It would be a terrible mistake to uphold the two-child benefit cap
Starmer, man of sleaze
Starmer’s promises to clean up British politics make him little more than an establishment demagogue
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning