Aesthetic
Ready for take-off
Leaping into style with a jumpsuit
The republican anti-aesthetic
The most uninspiring, mundane movement
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Crenelations with friends
What playing Carcassonne taught me about my pals
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
The government must stand up to India on immigration
An exemption from National Insurance contributions would be intolerable
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
