Ariane Grande
Look back in anger
Overbearing sentimentality was the wrong response to acts of jihadist murder
The rise of toxic femininity
The return of feminine aesthetics is not good news for traditionalists
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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
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
David Lean
the cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic