Bryan Washington
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say