Artillery Row
No safe territory
The Lord’s final assisted suicide Select Committee week made for grim viewing
Peace, solar power and ponies for all
Zack Polanski has a head full of empty promises
Welcome back to Weimar
In an atomised world, right and left are turning to extremes
Public health versus the public
Public health authorities hate it when consumers speak for themselves
Calling bullshit on “The Marbles”
A new documentary about the Elgin Marbles offers cinematic skill and historical bias
Kids, critics and the courage of Kate Clanchy
Writers have to be able to take risks, even if that means angering or upsetting people
Why can’t we let the Chagossians go home?
The majority of the displaced islanders remain loyal to the Crown and still hope to return
Security guarantees can guarantee insecurity
Trump should say no to a U.S.-Saudi defence deal
Baroque in a bad way
Vikingur Olafsson: Opus 109 (DG)
Britain, remembered
Remembrance risks becomes a state ritual for an untrusted and despised establishment
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor