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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
A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
Pärt, Poulenc, Stravinsky (BR Klassik)
This is a brilliant concert of three sacred works
The unstoppable rise of geek culture
The cult of Elon Musk reveals some horrible truths about our non-virtual world
Does Sadiq Khan think he’s living in America?
The mayor of London should focus on representing the city that elected him
A madman’s guide to Wagner
You don’t have to be crazy to enjoy Wagner, but it helps
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
Stirring the melting pot
Ethnicity pay gap reporting is a terrible idea, so why won’t it go away?
Irish reunification is a Remainer pipe dream
The Republic would be in no way equipped to absorb loyalist communities against their will
A hidden horror
Rakib’s Britain: Domestic abuse is happening behind closed doors — and within closed cultures
Last swipe at the Proms
Is it time to give a grudging nod of acknowledgement to the BBC Proms?
Save this Severn heaven
A property developer has an idyllic and precious plotland development in his sights