Lily Allen
Stage frights
Do pop stars have what it takes to succeed in the theatre?
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Drill in the dock
It can be legitimate to use music as evidence in criminal trials
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage