Bekaa valley
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds
and whites from the Bekaa valley
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian