Jonathan Aitken
A Christ Church alumnus, Jonathan Aitken is a former Conservative cabinet member and current Prison Chaplain at HMP Pentonville.
Low panic at high table
The Christ Church coup attempt is fast morphing into a much darker fiasco
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?