The Last Dinner Party
Roxy Music but they’re all Kate Bush
The Last Dinner Party are a proper rock band, but the spell is too easily broken
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities