Grace Lavery
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
A heartbreaking work of staggering narcissism
Grace Lavery reveals the delusions of transgender ideology
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Rejecting Kant’s cant
Germany, cradle of the hate speech law
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
Losing the crowd
In bullfighting, audiences can be as tough as animals
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Dad’s army
We’re all doomed
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
