Sir Tim Martin
Wetherspoons is the heart of local Britain
Tim Martin deserves a knighthood for creating a triumph for real British society
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
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.
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering