Parsifal
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
