“We did everything we could”
This book offers an insider’s account of the extraordinary (in)decision-making among Johnson’s team during the most tumultuous year in modern history
Mission Accomplished
Finley Harnett reviews the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
