Salman Rushdie
Time the Old Gang departed
The Amis/Barnes/McEwan generation have dominated the book scene for too long
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus