When Brexit was unfashionable, he was there
Lord Stoddart of Swindon, 1926-2020
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
