Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
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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
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change