Dump Trump
The former president is holding back the Republicans
Absolutely not Boris
His personality cult must end
Bin Lizzie
The Tories cannot win with Truss
I miss the stiff upper lip
Some social constructions deserve to be kept
Bye bye, BoJo
He wasted his time in power
The needy party
Wanting to be liked is a recipe for hatred
Against Brown-nosers
We should hear less from former PMs
From RP to cock-er-ney
Why can’t politicians be themselves?
It should have been Kemi
The Tories may have just thrown away the next election
Beware the crisis crisis
Constant catastrophism is destroying our brains
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
