Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
