Earthquake
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?