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Saving London from the czar
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics