Chancellor
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)