Lord Sumption
Liberty in lockdown
Is it time to release democracy from quarantine and resuscitate the rule of law?
Sacred Legal Ordering
Is Jonathan Sumption the man to judge the judges?
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
