Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Lording it over us
Cameron may not be a welcome sight, but we should celebrate the return of peers to the cabinet
Our true European home
With Brexit settled, Britain must seek to engage with its unalterably European cultural heritage and identity
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
