Bawdiness
A fond farewell to Barry Cryer
His death is a loss for the English comic tradition
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
