Leicester
Populism comes to Leicester
Is Facebook to blame?
How Indian politics fuels violence in Leicester
Militancy in the Midlands
Finding the dividing line
Starmer seeks to trap Johnson on detail. But the future of the furlough scheme is really where the debate should head
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
