Artillery Row
Polish lessons for Ukrainian reconstruction
What can the Ukrainians learn from post-war Warsaw?
Where are the Parkies of tomorrow?
In a risk averse world of fakes and phonies, the ever-authentic Sir Michael Parkinson is sorely missed
The crisis we ignore
Armenians are in danger as the world looks the other way
Hating The Hundred
Why do cricketing authorities think we’re stupid?
When the left loves billionaires
Why does only right-wing funding count as “dark money”?
Power, politics and mental illness
Our mental health discourse is deeply hypocritical
The criminalisation of private speech
Parliament and the courts are engaged in a creeping campaign of mass surveillance and censorship
The Tories are worse than weak
The Conservatives cannot blame powerlessness for their failures
The Queen’s Gambit
Why women’s chess matters
The end of the world
Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s best and most important film
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
