Premature celebrations
Rishi can’t stop magnifying his triumphs and minimising his failures
Imagine there’s no problem
It isn’t hard to do
Dear Editor
This sketchwriter has had enough, and is very disappointed in this magazine
Daddy’s home
Dave rides to the rescue
The Parallax Clueless
In which Nadine Dorries solves an international conspiracy and drinks a LOT of tea
My kingdom for a licensed pedicab
The text for the King’s Speech failed to inspire
Keeping the beaches open
What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s COVID response from Didactic Dom?
The fog of bores
Was Martin Reynolds’ memory a casualty of the pandemic?
Cry God for Rishi
Rishi Sunak only wishes he had the prospects of Henry V
California dreaming
Is there strife in the Sunak household?
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
