Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher is a novelist, critic and journalist
A madman’s guide to Wagner
You don’t have to be crazy to enjoy Wagner, but it helps
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
Slaying gay culture
How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle
Why Meghan is my role model
The public needs to get to know the real Meghan