Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats