Munira Mirza
Johnson’s better angel takes flight
Munira Mirza was the Prime Minister’s indispensable foil
The Marxist cell in Number 10
Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
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While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken