Michael Connelly
Murders for June
The longer days can be just as dark
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Pride’s heir
Removing Gavin Barwell sends a message, but Badenoch should go much further
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion