Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
