Conservative Party
Bin Lizzie
The Tories cannot win with Truss
Things have only got wetter
What have the Conservatives achieved?
Badgers complaining about foxes eating chickens
Some of the government’s critics need more introspection
The three circles of hell
Today’s glossy big-city party conferences are even more nightmarish than the traditional grim trips to run-down seaside resorts
They’ll have what she’s having
The PM impressed the easily impressed
Trussception
WARNING — contains spoilers about Dunkirk
Beware of the Boris haters
Many of Boris Johnson’s most fervent detractors are drawn from the “Restablishment”, an elite who despise him for his stance on Europe and seek to frustrate the rolling back of the state
Auto-destructive art
The Tories are their own worst enemies — Labour doesn’t come close
Bye bye, BoJo
He wasted his time in power
In praise of stupid politicians
Literary intelligence is not everything
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Moroccan gold
Enjoy some of the finest food ever eaten at the exquisite Farasha Farmhouse
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
