The Times
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
