Amendment
Labour is braced to back Brady
Labour’s whips are ready to ally with Tory rebels
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?