Leigh Francis
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden’s rappers
Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
