Leo Tolstoy
Controversial claims to genius
The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers by Helen Lewis
We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia
Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
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.