Carl Schmitt
Lord Hermer’s friends and enemies
The attorney general has offered an accidental insight into the true nature of Starmerite proceduralism
China: Cold war or hot peace?
The culture clash between East and West is complicated by interdependence
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
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
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original