Grub Street
Grubbing a living
These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
Devilishly good
Liszt: Faust Symphony (Bis)
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
