Mark D'Arcy
Mark D’Arcy is a BBC parliamentary correspondent
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
Cancel the train drivers
Brexiteers, transphobes, racists and right-wingers — but I repeat myself
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
Trump the peacemaker?
Donald Trump’s survival should inspire him to seek an end to violence
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
An election without ideas
We need intellectual substance, not just idle gossip
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny