Honour
Music to die for
The elegant narrative solution of suicide has had no greater cheerleader than opera
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
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Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions