Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
One of these books is worth reading …
Their rhetoric is unhinged, yet still they preen
A cynical man without any plan
Boris Johnson was an opportunist Prime Minister whose gambler’s luck ran out
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees
Quiet, you’ll get yours in a minute
He’d have wanted “Dropping the Pilot”
The liberal hero who sealed in Ulster’s sectarianism
John Hume, 1937-2020
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
