Director
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
