Summer Season
A very superior Season
Today’s Season may be more democratic and international than the old, but those in the know still cherish the hot tickets that guarantee exclusivity
Serve up a symphony
Simplicity is best for a Glyndebourne picnic
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes