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
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
