Bertrand Burgalat
French Class
Michael Collins looks back Bertrand Burgalat’s career as the architect for the modern French pop sound
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked