Artillery Row
The ghost of busses past
The perception that Boris Johnson is an incontinent liar helps Labour to get away with its own misinformation
The battle for Chester
Lewis Baston on a borderland election battle
Wobbly Thursday
There are few worse times to conclude what the result will be than right now
Red sky at night, Corbyn’s delight?
How weather will affect the election result
Cancel the Turner
It looks like it was made by artists who don’t like art and chosen by judges who don’t either
The Case for defence
The Conservatives can hardly claim to be the friend of the armed forces
Clive James, the Kid from Kogarah
A tribute to the late Clive James, by David Herman
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Whither the Lib Dems?
The fate that awaits the Liberal Democrats after such an awful election
Is Scottish Conservatism heading south?
Graham Stewart on why a lot of ‘Cons Holds’ are actually too close to call
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
The immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life
Playing God with our grub
Hey, Public Health England, leave our food alone
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
A majority built on sand
Keir Starmer should not feel too triumphant — hard times lie ahead
