Borisland
We, as a people, will get to the Borisland
Boris invites us to Utopia – where he is World King
Bush and Boris: separated at birth?
Boris aped Dubya’s mistakes
Labour’s lost cause
Despite recent successes, the party is still leaving working class voters behind
June: Letters to the Editor
Ukraine provides the best argument for why countries should not lightly discard nuclear weapons
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
Our golden age
Today’s jockeys are the best ever
Virginia Woolf: Teflon goddess of the trivial
She was nasty, crude, racist and often a poor writer — so why is she revered?
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity
Incompetents abroad
Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like — or how to bring it about
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
Ethics men
Opera directors are utilising programme books to purvey their moral and ethical wisdom
The art of influence
Culture and propaganda are not easily separable