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
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Champagne in the membrane
Alcohol is not a major risk factor for dementia
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
