Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Reflections on the rubble of the ancients
An enthusiasm for ruins is far from universal
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General