Entertainment
Past his prime
Even the President of the United States has to know when to retire
A return to Lord’s
Two years on from the gripping World Cup Final, there are few pops and bangs this year at Lord’s
Judah Friedlander Live!
In his perversity, absurdity, and bleakness, Friedlander taps the mood of American politics now
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran