canonisation
Saints and sinners
The dotty suggestion the Queen be canonised is an expression of a hope she will not be forgotten
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
