Alex Danchey
The scatalogical subversive
Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
