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Vanilla flavour Labour
Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak
BBC butterflies
Trans charity Global Butterflies seems harmless — but are they really cuckoos in the nest?
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
Kemi Badenoch’s misplaced priorities
Culture wars won’t seem quite as important in the cold
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
Nigeria’s elephant in the room
Christians are being targeted in widespread violence