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
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
