Front Row
Palin was a rare Radio 4 treat
The triumph of Michael Palin’s Book of the Week and the tragedy of Radio 4 comedy
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
