Artillery Row
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
