Columns
Beware of the tax-cutters
Slashing the tax take now will lead to increased public spending for years to come
Lavender letters
Bozza has left the building
Johnson’s disrespect for the law
The PM repeatedly showed a cavalier attitude towards constitutional conventions
In arcadia ego
Finite life and Infinite Jest
Cast asunder
No country for old drunk actors?
Incompetents abroad
Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like — or how to bring it about
Amanda Scrimgeour: Glamour hound
Some people are born to rake over the coals of ancient scandals
There is an alternative
The Church should invest in parishes and ministry if it wants to reach a new audience
A flash of genius
When done well, swing bowling is arguably the most beautiful of cricket skills
Artwashing
Lisa Hilton at the Venice Biennale
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
