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Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
The detective who knew too much
Ian Thomson delves into the most-investigated unsolved killing in British history as the investigation report was finally released on 15 June
Click all about it!
How has political reporting changed in the last twenty years, and is it all for the worse?
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Who let the dons out?
Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
Still fit to print?
The rise and fall of the British newspaper
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
