Birmingham
Fears for tiers
The British state must be impartial in the face of different outbreaks of criminality
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look