Alexandra Wilson
Puncturing the toxic myth of “elitism”
No art form is more subtle, more visceral, more preposterous and more life-affirming than opera
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus