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Auntie at the precipice
The BBC faces a perfect storm of looming threats
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill