Folk
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Walking the wild side of Merrie England
Revived folk customs are proud expressions of local identity and communal cohesion
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Same beach, same sea
Rainy beaches and protests in Venice, and dance and sunshine in the South Downs as Britain and Italy trade places
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on