Columns

Critical briefing: local elections

Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections

A criminal abuse of the law

Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent

The futility of right-wing cancel culture

Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong

Class war in the upper house

The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism

Right-wing fight night

A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light

So long, Socrates

Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own

Broken windows

If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed

Where hatreds meet

Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common

Polish piano

Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)

Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy

Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning