Thomas Cook
Holidays take a pounding
An entertaining new history of British tourism is well timed
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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
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback