Cronyism
Strings attached
How politics orchestrates contemporary classical music
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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
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter