Blairism
Keir Starmer – a Serious Man
Starmer lays out a future – back to “the third way”
Studio: The 2022 Venice Biennale
Cecilia Alemani has produced an exceptionally intelligent and delightful Biennale
Arise, Sir Wayne
The trickle of sporting knighthoods has now become a flood — who will be next?
Party poppers
Can liberal philosophers be used to justify censorship?
Bad Penny
Mordaunt should be more open about her role in the gender wars
Notes from a client kingdom
Britain is a sad sunless satrapy of the American empire
I miss the Simon Ravens
Twinkly-eyed twentieth century mischief makers have crashed out of fashion
Playing ball
The best way to sport a baseball cap
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
Earthly pleasures
The thrill of digging up — and eating — the first new potatoes of the year
Harold Pinter: from bad to verse
The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry
A game of thrones
Shelley Puhak’s woman-versus-woman rivalry between queens is only part of the story