Tom Sutcliffe
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
