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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
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
