Beyoncé
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
