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Reconnecting health with beauty
Must new hospitals invariably be so ugly?
An away win
Can the Conservatives win on “Labour issues” like poverty?
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect