Tony Benn
Block votes and nutters
There was a time when the Labour conference really mattered, before it became a stage-managed platform for social media hits and soundbites
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
