Sacred Cows
Queen of Kitsch
Frida Kahlo: Her brand has quickly spread from cult to cliché
Fabricator and fraudster
Fabricator and fraud
A miserable specimen
The Natural History Museum seems to have lost faith in the ability of children to understand new concepts and facts
Trial by Jury
I should have known that expressing the slightest doubt about trial by jury would lead to public opprobrium
A little too mature
In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does
Black Lives Matter are pushing division, not unity
BLM’s radical ideas, such as defunding the police, would only make the lives of black communities worse
Middle-class hero
John Lennon’s kicking against the pricks was mere window-dressing
Empire of conformists
The NHS is immune to criticism because its deficiencies are seen as departures from its essential goodness
Charismatic charlatan
Benjamin Disraeli could change his mind without turning a hair
Fenian fantasist
No journalist has so vituperatively fed the ancestral hatreds and dormant furies of Ireland as Fintan O’Toole