Chevening
Raab’s home truths
PMQs: Raab’s back from his holidays but not quite at home
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
