City Living
Town vs clown
Claudia Savage-Gore baulks at the idea of decamping to the shires
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
