Peter Oborne
Cancelling Trevor Phillips
Suspending Phillips didn’t advance Labour’s claim they are the party of anti-racism
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
A night of spectacle and special effects
Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove