Culture Secretary
Rachel’s Christmas drinks are off
Until we get better numbers in from the Office for Budget Responsibility
Is Nadine Dorries the best we have?
Love or loathe her, she’s never pretended to be anything other than a populist
Most Read
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting