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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions