Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Action Tom
Can Tom Tugendhat MP resolve his vibes problem?
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
When will bishops be held to account?
If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
