From feral beasts to pussycats
A Lobby made man on the decline of the parliamentary press from feared newsbreakers to humdrum hacks
Hard Labour for Boris
Have cake, get others to eat cake, still have to pay for cake
Life Between Islands
The Tate’s exhibition shows Caribbean-British art from the Windrush to the present day
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
Gays against the conversion therapy ban
Gay men oppose these proposals not in spite of being gay, but because they are gay
Fear in a time of Covid
Manipulating public emotion is a dangerous and costly exercise
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
WD-Govey: the tool for every job
The man with a thousand uses is deployed to sort out the cladding scandal
The silent treatment
Physical “conversion therapy” is already illegal, so any new sanctions will be aimed at criminalising conversations
Where’s the future?
Rishi Sunak’s budget is taking us back to the 1970s, but with none of the fun
The name’s gone
Society needs to end the charade of delegating moral judgments on historic benefactors to schoolchildren
Rabble-rouser in chief
Our increasingly polarised and angry age wants not entertainment, but preachers