Red Wine
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Traditional beefy favourites
Abandoning classic styles shows a lack of confidence
In praise of old wines
The blessings of maturity
The King of Italy
A fragrant modern Barolo is royalty among Italian wines
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions