Humour
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
