Nimco Ali
All the news fit to post
Are Freedom of Information requests really being politically policed by the Cabinet Office?
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses