Xi Jinping
A calibrated campaign of genocide
Our leaders have let us down, so let’s resolve as individuals to end our dependency on the Chinese power wiping out the Uyghurs
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Culture war, what is it good for?
Women will continue to battle for our rights
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC