Columns
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)