BRINO
Making plans for Nigel
Culture wars may give Nigel Farage another chance to ambush the Conservatives
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
