Christopher Bray
Christopher Bray is the author of 1965: The Year Modern Britain was Born
Mass-goer who glorified mass production
Christopher Bray reviews Warhol by Blake Gopnik
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts