Nepotism
On British chumocracy
Playing Six Degrees of Petronella Wyatt
Is artistic nepotism an evil – or a necessity?
Nepotism in the arts is very much alive and here to stay
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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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill