Artillery Row
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
Britain must reindustrialise
A truly conservative economics must prioritise making, not speculating
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
The Tories are victims of themselves
It is futile to complain about the consequences of laws they have established or upheld
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
Is Georgia approaching its Euromaidan?
New attempts to curb the activities of NGOs have stirred pro-EU feeling
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
PMQs of the Apes
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
