Christopher Bray
Christopher Bray is the author of 1965: The Year Modern Britain was Born
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
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
A new low for women’s sport
The International Olympic Committee has disgraced itself
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal