Britain’s Got Talent
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Patriotism takes more than talk
Posting patriots have to remember to log off and do something for their communities
Ofcom is a menace to our freedom of speech
It is high time we liberated our airwaves
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?