Election 2019
Labour’s plan to turn back the clock on education
Corbyn proposes the most significant transferral of power back to town halls for more than a generation
Do Prime Ministers lose their seats?
There is no special place in the British electoral system for party leaders
Starting blocks
On the most important nomination stage in living memory
The Hartlepool Declaration
How much impact will Farage’s retreat really have?
Party people
Corbyn knows the crowd-pleasers, but can he play to a wider audience?
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
The unsurprising rise of AI art
Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives
Policing offence
There’s nothing like a beating stick to ram home a lie
Eton needs to be led by a headmaster, not a social activist
Simon Henderson’s top-down revolution at Eton has lost the trust of too many parents, staff, and donors for him to remain in place
Festive nuts and spice
Nancy Mitford’s 1932 festive novella ‘Christmas Pudding’ is the tonic 2020 is crying out for
Queer as a Chocolate Orange
Dominic Green takes us through the history of the word “Queer”
Culture club
A cherished hub of post-colonial Indian life in London is under threat of closure
Surely the final series
Script writers attempt to spice up “Covid briefings” with the Brazilian variant
BBC iPlayer’s liberal conspiracy theory
Adam Curtis’s six-part history of the modern imagination is an obituary for serious or even semi-serious television
The black hole of online censorship
The removal of Parler from app stores has made it clear that online opinions exist at the sufferance of those providing the soap box
People with disabilities are bearing the brunt of Covid measures
The coronavirus response will disproportionately affect people with disabilities for years to come