Agatha Christie
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness
Remembering an Agatha Christ-mas
What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?
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
Bar none
The fraud behind the Bar Standards Board’s “equality and diversity” drive
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
