Features

Drawing Britain’s new frontier

The merits of hand-drawn masterplans in urban design

Dying to save the NHS

Assisted dying will provide a new threat to the legitimacy of the NHS

Bring back the song-and-dance men

The brilliance of an overlooked generation of 18th century English music makers

Musical morphine

Radio 3 has given up its time-honoured mission to inform, educate and entertain

Clusters’ last stand

Labour is threatening the cooperatives that make small farms viable

Hypocrisy: the crack beneath Ireland’s craic

The “neutral” Republic relies on NATO while lecturing the world on human rights

Seriously funny

David Lodge’s work appealed to the highbrow as much as lovers of lowbrow farce

Paul Simon: still crazy after all these years

The consummate singer-songwriter still delights his fans at the age of 83

No place like home

The crisis facing London renters

Don’t blame Islam for grooming gangs

The tight-knit clan structure of many in the Pakistani community lies at the root of the sex abuse scandal