William Wallace
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
