Neil Hannon
The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
