Ace or joker?
Sturgeon’s IndyRef gamble will play into Johnson’s hands
Party people
Corbyn knows the crowd-pleasers, but can he play to a wider audience?
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
