Jonathan Welch
Jonathan Welch is a lawyer, living and working in London.
The power of the pageant
Our enchanted, sometimes absurd, monarchy is one of the last focuses of common cultural experience
The future of higher education
How can universities be more efficient and effective?
Can Reform perform?
A Farage-less Reform campaign began with more of a splutter than a bang
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable
A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Decline of the underclass
In the 21st century, London has lost its own internal logic
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority