The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
