Culture
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
Are fictional politicians as interesting as the real thing?
Sir David Hare’s new BBC drama feels small-scale when we are surrounded by far more impressive real-life spectacles
American Utopia
Facts are overlooked in American Utopia’s HBO concert film to accommodate the systemic white racism narrative
The enduring appeal of Jeeves and Wooster
Ben Schott’s new novel is hugely welcome, but thankfully it will never threaten to obscure the genius of the canon
Lost dream of coexistence
Adam LeBor delves into The Bureau, the utterly absorbing French spy thriller series
The Long Hours: remembering David Oluwale
How one man’s English journey, begun in hope, turned into a nightmare
Dinner at Brasenose? Unmasking the Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister’s new book tears apart fake news and the notion of compensation culture
The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon
Year’s mind: James Small and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
ASH Smyth reflects on South Africa’s historic 1995 Rugby World Cup win
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless