Back to the future
HS2? Where we’re going, we don’t need high speed rail
Rishi is going off the rails
High Speed Toryism has not reached Manchester
Suella Braveheart
Plucky rebel or wicked traitor? Either way, she isn’t taking any prisoners in her bid for the throne
A circular firing squad
The Conservatives have no one but each other to blame
Can’t read my poker face
As party conference opens, Sunak looks like a man waiting for his bluff to be called
Wall St wolves
On money, morality and motive in three films
A bonfire of the straw men
Rishi Sunak declares war on policies that never existed
Sic transit gloria mundi
A barebones parliament stumbles along as a country crumbles
How Liz was (tin)foiled
Everybody was to blame but her
Sunak Mirror
Charlie Brooker couldn’t imagine anything so bleak as the Conservatives in 2023
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
