Dissidents
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
PMQs of the Apes
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
I love a “dream home” nightmare
What disasters will strike the family next? You almost expect a tsunami
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and town planning
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
What on Earth are the Conservatives running on?
Rishi Sunak needs a vision for the country, not just anti-Starmer posturing
The new Stalinism?
Far left tactics are shifting in a more centralised, disruptive direction