Gérald Darmanin
Liverpool, lies and France’s shame
The Stade de France fiasco bodes ill for forthcoming international sports events
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat