Alfred Hayes
Matters of life and death
John Self reviews Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams, and The End of Me by Alfred Hayes
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity