Welfare State
Throwing good money after bad
Spare us the spectacle of incredible claims to reform criminal drug-users by showering them with more public sector love
The abandoned middle
The chancellor’s budget fails to take the side of ordinary people
Bleak streets
Freedom to die on the streets is no freedom at all
An away win
Can the Conservatives win on “Labour issues” like poverty?
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
King of the clay court
On the red clay of Stade Roland Garros, Nadal is God
Russia’s Tsushima moment
Campaign Diary: Putin’s regime is suffering from an old problem — imperial overreach
Playing pipeline politics
The Gulf countries may not be reliable partners against Russia
Joyous adventures in the absurd
A new performance of a Janacek opera takes one to the moon and back
The brave new world of Swedish education
What is “post-truth” schooling?
Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature
The renewal of Englishness
Journalist James Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents
This is not the time to appease Iran
Iranians are risking their lives to bring down their theocratic regime
Gustav Mahler: 4th symphony (Pentatone)
A new recording of Mahler’s smallest symphony is “indispensable” to connoisseurs of his music
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners