Andy Street
The myths of Tory moderates
The idea of a “One Nation” voter bloc is pure fantasy
Two faces of Toryism
Andy Street and Suella Braverman represent two paths. The Conservatives are taking the low road
City of the future
Birmingham was once an economic powerhouse with a proud civic identity. Today it is at the forefront of a battle for the new England
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening