The Rolling Stones
The Beatles: occasionally fab four
Their output was more mixed than many critics would like to believe
Long players
As long as the fans are alive, it seems that a band can keep going
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
