Madrid
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
End of a bullfighting era
Morante may now retire, weeping like Alexander because there are no more lands to conquer
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history