Simon Mason
Murders for September
The best and worst crime fiction for September
Murders for June
The longer days can be just as dark
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.