The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
