Features
For whose protection?
The scandalous failure to collect ethnicity data in child grooming cases
Embarrassment of riches
The support group for men who have it all
Wrong tracks
Whatever happened to the romance of rail travel?
Hard to swallow
Japanese food is over-hyped
J.D. Wetherspoons
The J.D. does indeed come from J.D. ‘Boss’ Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard. But Tim Martin’s reason for ‘Wetherspoon’…
Crash course
Where does the Truss revolution go from here?
Fellowship of the Lamb
How a group of regulars are saving Tolkien’s pub
Open alms
How I came to live on charity
Airheads
The arrogance of the ‘Tyre Extinguishers’
Arms’ reach
Will guns from Ukraine end up on the streets of Britain?
Nuclear options
How should the West respond to Putin’s threats?
Barcodes
Beep-bop. The sound of the supermarket checkout – a noise Morrisons felt the need to mute after the Queen’s death…
‘I don’t think I’ve gone too far’
Suella Braverman on how her party can recover
What crisis?
A tough week for Trussonomics
Tabletop games
Warhammer is a tabletop battle game. Players build and paint little models of aliens, tanks and killer robots and then…
The prince of paradox
Is it fascist or anti-fascist to quote G.K. Chesterton, or neither?
Border lines
There’s a growing sense that tomorrow belongs to Sinn Fein
Killer in our midst
Red kites should never have been reintroduced to Britain
Marching order
Why has Oxford killed off a much-loved Catholic college?
Author’s Notebook
I began the week in Miami, looking forward to what a friend of mine describes as ‘the finest sight in…
‘We’re so close’
Cautious optimism at the Labour party conference
The cornered rat
Will Putin push the button to save himself?
‘This war is a catastrophe’
Meet Russia’s new opposition
Composer’s Notebook
There were two world premieres during the Queen’s funeral on Monday. One was a beautiful setting of some verses from…
‘Keir’s not Superman, he can’t do it all by himself’
Is Wes Streeting Labour’s next leader?
