Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
Classless Act
Gavin Stamp believed in what he saw. Roger Scruton saw what he believed in
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Is it art – or a trigger warning?
Once, the establishment might have left the unsavoury implications to the viewer’s own intelligence
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
Irregular and unequal
Is inequality really a disease? The chairman of the British Medical Association thinks so…
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
Sharing the pleasure in poetry
James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’