Pop Star
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Funny guy
The charm of Lewis Capaldi
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
