Matador
Blood and beauty
Bullfighting magnificence in Santander
Lords of the ring
Christopher North says while matadors come and go, pedigree fighting bulls remain
Death of a maestro
Christopher North pays tribute to one of the two great matadors of the Golden Age
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
