Little Britain
“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?
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
