Hymns
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
The problem with the Celtic Fringe
Devolution has proved to be a disastrous mistake
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
Technical problems
Rishi Sunak must be glad to face one problem that is absolutely not his fault
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
In defence of anons
Anonymous accounts did not cause the rioting, so why are they being blamed?
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East