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Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Premature celebrations
Rishi can’t stop magnifying his triumphs and minimising his failures
The Parallax Clueless
In which Nadine Dorries solves an international conspiracy and drinks a LOT of tea
Keeping the beaches open
What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s COVID response from Didactic Dom?
Cry God for Rishi
Rishi Sunak only wishes he had the prospects of Henry V
Rishiversary
How could anyone not like him?
This calls for Action Keir
Was all that glitters gold at the Labour Party Conference?
A bonfire of the straw men
Rishi Sunak declares war on policies that never existed
How Liz was (tin)foiled
Everybody was to blame but her
Sunak Mirror
Charlie Brooker couldn’t imagine anything so bleak as the Conservatives in 2023
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
