Canterbury
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
Major Lapse
How can a man who leaves state secrets at the bus stop keep his job?
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
