Archives
How the Press Association got bullied
And how the journalistic sausage gets made
Who the hell is Disraeli?
Wisdom on recovering from Conservative failure
Bad-boy opera
Tosca, Grand Opera House, Belfast
A chronicle of gratitude and ambivalence
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: 12th symphony/Dawn (Chandos)
Heaven is where the chefs are British
In praise, and not just defence, of British cooking
The rise and rise of military history
A fine new landmark in the welcome renaissance of a timeless genre
The culture war has become the culture
On the discourse and the subject
BBC News prefers some voices to others
How the Beeb fails to inform
From slobs to royalty
How the Royle Family mirrored working class life
We can’t lose the word “woman”
Women face enough ignorance about their health without gender ideology making it worse
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
