David Hare
Spare us easy satire
Satire is supposed to be the unsayable, not virtue-signalling two-bit doggerel
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
