Artillery Row

After the Cass Review

Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists

The war on noticing in modern Britain

How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness

Poor old Carmen

This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky

The untalented Mx. Ripley

In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man

All smoke and no fire

An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing

In praise of centibillionaires

When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins

Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents

Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation

The royals needs better PR

We have seen too many royal disasters

Diversity is not our strength

The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines

We’re all living in America

Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front