Boris Johnson
The rise and fall of Rishi
Exceptional good fortune met common mediocrity
The ghosts of Tory past
The Conservatives are haunted by the spirits of the last two decades
The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson
Bad behaviour has to come with consequences
Blame Boris for Britain’s borders
Boris Johnson is no lost Conservative hero — he did tremendous harm
The big Tory lie
They promised high-skill immigration. We got something else entirely
What is it with populists and comical haircuts?
Crazy hair can be as much of an asset to a firebrand politician as crazy rhetoric
The Plot thins
Everything Dorries encounters proves how right she is
The Parallax Clueless
In which Nadine Dorries solves an international conspiracy and drinks a LOT of tea
Keeping the beaches open
What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s COVID response from Didactic Dom?
The fog of bores
Was Martin Reynolds’ memory a casualty of the pandemic?
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Duke of deception
Duke Wolff was a real life Gatsby, a brilliant, flamboyant faker whose lies left a legacy of both devastation and fascination for his children
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education
Food fit for an angel
Celebrate Michaelmas in style
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
