Billboards
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
