Diane Abbott
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
The long march back
Despite losing full control of Labour, Momentum isn’t giving up
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
