Local Elections 2023
The slippery slope to basic standards
How has the demand for “access” overridden basic requirements?
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Best bets for Cheltenham
My racing tips for Cheltenham
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Red dawn
Following the locals, a shattered Conservative party will need to get used to losing
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
