Ballet
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
Vicarious pleasure
On the enduring allure of celebrity cast-offs
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
