Alistair Darling
Just another minister
Matt Hancock is no master-deceiver, just an average embarrassment
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
