Metroland
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Forty-five years of excellence
John Self lauds a writer who has ended up outshining all of his peers
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands