Sam Coates
Defending a sticky wicket
Supporting Dom Cummings, Grant Shapps is the Boycott of press conference performers
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Why the world could be more dangerous in 2025
The old order is breaking apart and bad actors are taking advantage
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
