ITV
The Corrie in the coalmine
When they’re not worrying about crime, Weatherfield residents are lamenting the state of the NHS
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
Why does ITV insist that violence against women is normal?
Bruce Newsome says that an elite obsessed with social justice is failing at criminal justice
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan