Boris Johnson
Who wants to rule forever?
Being in power a long time doesn’t guarantee you’ll get things done
An all time high
Strangers are just people you haven’t infected yet
Do as Tories say, not as Tories do
Conservative politicians instruct us to wear masks — but vice-signal not doing so themselves
Did the PM tell the truth about Net Zero?
Fact-checking Boris Johnson’s answer to my PMQ
Freaky Friday
Tories and Labour become each other
The rusty bucket
Six tests for the social care plan
Boris – an optimist even in military defeat
Boris brooks no insult of our hardworking men and women in khaki and pinstripe
Who cares about the Channel crisis?
For the media and the Government, only one crisis is worth bothering with
“Will this do?”
Johnson’s statement on Afghanistan was, as ever, a masterpiece of bare adequacy
The Diary of Dilyn the Dog
As told to Robert Hutton
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
