Baroness Nicholson
A woman for all seasons
A rare brave voice in the House of Lords
Error has no honorary positions
What the Booker binning Emma Nicholson means for the public square
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
