Cowboys
The devils that made me a dandy
Joseph Connolly’s enduring passion for sartorial splendour was driven by a childhood addiction to the glamour of TV
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US