Rainy Sunday Afternoon
Literate, satirical, witty and romantic
Neil Hannon is one of the true greats of songwriting
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders