Sketch
Hey, Rishi, leave them kids alone
Sunak takes his stand against number phobia
Edward Leigh: Fighter Ace
Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been blamed on so few
The adventures of Captain Competent
Not coming to cinemas near you
Mockney banker
From Winchester to Whitechapel
Passion of the shyster
Boris thinks he is the victim — but he might be the only one
Dr Johnson and Mr Boris
Dodgy dossier or gothic novel?
Weapon of mass deception
Boris dossier reveals we’re only 45 minutes from the next lie
The Hunt boredget
Will it do more for the economy or insomnia?
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Literally Hitler?
Britain may be a fascist country, but the trains certainly don’t run on time
Back to the future
Retro retorts and refugee rhetoric as Sunak invokes the ghost of 80s Starmer
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
