Flags
Stars, stripes and dollars
Michael Prodger on the artists who make huge sums for painting the US flag
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable
A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport
The renovation of the Heal’s Building
Londoners are sentimental about the early-twentieth-century Tottenham Court Road store, Heal’s
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Is Georgia approaching its Euromaidan?
New attempts to curb the activities of NGOs have stirred pro-EU feeling