Criminal Records
Remedial class
Keir Starmer thinks he’s dealing with an idiot at PMQs – as today showed, it’s a mistake to always underestimate your opponent
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
A full musical meal
An unforgettable concert experience
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
