Being Jewish Now

The immigration dilemma

The UK’s political parties vie to sound “tough” on immigration while ignoring the policy choices required to reduce it.

Letter of the week: Precedent for pipsqueaks

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Next stop Nato for Lord Cameron?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Is Gen Z the most conservative generation in history?

Why teens and twenty-somethings could fuel the next Tory revival.

Facing blowback from James Dyson

Also this week: Taking on the tech giants, and remembering Terry Venables, football’s great showman.

Wayne Barnes: How I deal with the death threats

As a top-flight rugby referee, the English lawyer has faced some of the worst abuse imaginable. Now he is…

Why Labour may be forced to rejoin the European single market

If the party wants strong economic growth it will need to think radically.

Geert Wilders’ victory is a dire threat to the EU

The uncooperative presence of a populist-led Netherlands could wreck Brussels’ flagship legislative projects.

Can Telegraph grandees halt the sale of the paper to the UAE?

The tension between global markets and the sanctity of British institutions has been exposed again.

Anti-migrant protests are tearing Ireland apart

As hostility towards foreigners rises, the feted land of a thousand welcomes has slowly become an unhappy isle.

In search of the meaning of sport

A new book shows how sport has shaped British history and society – but cannot explain why it matters…

The techno-optimist fallacy

Robert Skidelsky is right to warn about the delusions of our tech overlords – but his critique of Silicon…

The Amazon guide to burnout

Kristi Coulter’s account of her 12-year career at the tech firm lays bare the toxic work culture of the…

The post-language world

Tech visionaries may dream of a wordless future, but even Elon Musk cannot disrupt the communal power of speech.

From Elton John to Wendy Cope: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Tremor by Teju Cole and A Woman I Know by Mary Haverstick.

All roads lead to Thaxted

England’s folk traditions live on in the small town in rural north Essex, inspired by the Christian socialism of…

Ezra Pound’s experiments in sound

The poet’s music revealed his impulse to innovate and disrupt. Did it also hasten his slide towards fascism?

Bradley Cooper’s thrill-seeking Leonard Bernstein

In Maestro, Cooper emphasises the composer’s ambition and hedonism. But Carey Mulligan is the film’s roaring heart.

Doctor Who goes back in time

David Tennant’s return as the Doctor in the first of three specials restores relish to the series.

BBC radio’s Gangster is true crime without the tawdriness

The story of the Burger Bar Boys is recent history as seen through the eyes of a Birmingham community…

How I almost became a Young Conservative

Thatcherism was seemingly never-ending and I was a young freelancer, desperate for ideas.

This year, all I want for Christmas is normality

My father will sit, happy and well, at the centre of my family’s celebrations. And that is all that…

This England: Possessive signs

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…

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Bertie Carvel’s Q&A: “Our world would be poorer without Sesame Street”

The actor on Star Wars, his past life as a sailor, and living inside a pointillist painting.