sacred
Sycamore Gap and Britain’s sacred trees
Why has one tree inspired such emotion?
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Humza Yousaf, global citizen
Britain needs one, and only one, foreign policy
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait