The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
