Stephen Fry
Losing face
How do you pick up your nephew if you can’t recognise anyone?
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
