Adele
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
Virtue Signalling
MPs get unconscious bias training, Terfs are sacked, Adele offends the woke gods and Stonewall get into Rugby
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
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
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
