Umbrellas
When in full fig, carry a Brigg
What could be more English?
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
