Tom Sutcliffe
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
The UPF panic is a fad
Chris van Tulleken cannot seem to decide what an ultra-processed food even is
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party