Royal Ascot
Armchair punter
Home comforts are preferable to enduring the expense and discomfort of the racecourse
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender