Career
Sheer snobbery
Real progress will require more than BBC telling its audience about cultural appropriation in a Brummie accent
Regulating the afterlife of Ministers
In light of the Greenshill Affair, John Bowers explains how Lord Pickles should lead the advisory committee
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Don’t blame “county lines” victims
Exploited children need protecting, not convicting
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
What the Conservatives can learn from Germany
The Tories should have a clean break with their past and rebuild
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence