The Week
How hot could Britain get?
Get out of jail There were 8 prison escapes in the year to March. All were recaptured within a month.…
Will the collapse of councils be the next great scandal?
Last month India managed to land a spacecraft on the moon for a third of the price of refurbishing Hammersmith…
Britain is no longer a functional country
No. 10 quickly asserted that the meltdown at National Air Traffic Services was a technical issue rather than a cyber…
How Damien Hirst ruined Devon
There are few better locations to resist la rentrée than the wilds of Exmoor. The late August heather and gorse.…
Letters: The Lucy Letby killings shouldn’t mean we lose trust in all NHS managers
Murder mystery Sir: I once made a diagnosis of a very rare condition too late to cure the patient. She…
Is Ulez too fashionable to fact check?
Next Tuesday, London’s Ulez scheme will be expanded. A new network of cameras filming the traffic movements of millions of…
Don’t cancel Queen
Another week, another whitewash. The latest chunk of culture to be painted out of existence is ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’, Queen’s…
London theatre needs Kevin Spacey
Lee Anderson, deputy chairman of the Conservative party, popped a few monocles by saying asylum seekers reluctant to stay on…
The government can’t be trusted with our data
This week Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies confessed that, replying to a freedom of information request, they had managed to release…
