Vodka
Shots with everything
Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
