Mick Herron
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?