Dominic Cummings
Learn to Cook with Dominic Cummings
The former adviser shares life-saving tips on getting breakfast done
The modern age in lists
Plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off
In at the Domination
The controversial top-level adviser sets the record straight about his role in Creation
It was meant to be a screenshot of beauty
The Modern Dometheus
Today in making Matt Hancock look good
Meanwhile in the Caino Chief of Staff timeline …
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?
The Dom Identity
What happens if an imaginary grenade doesn’t explode?
To govern is to blog
Abysmal media incompetence but something deeper is at work
Classical Dom
Always fighting all the evil forces bringing peace and justice to all
Chatty rat-a-tat-tat
The Doms of Navarone
Strange brew
The joy of letting unexpected, accidental music in
In my ears and in my eyes
The Lyrics: the autobiography Paul McCartney never wrote
The New Appeasement
Why giving in to Russia is a bigger mistake than Munich
Sherlock Holmes plays the white man
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist
Faith at war
It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet
Grasping the nettle
Romeo runs into legal difficulties …
Hans Werner Henze: The Sea Betrayed (Capriccio)
I was completely absorbed by this opera as a sound production — maybe one day I’ll get to see the whole show
Otherworldly talents
Long live the golden age of British television, when great actors imbued classic roles with risky, multifaceted complexity
Invisible hand
Did peace prevail in the World Wars thanks to providential deliverance, or just a number of very fortunate occurrences?
Losing face
How do you pick up your nephew if you can’t recognise anyone?
In praise of conversion
Like LGBT campaigners Augustine of Hippo found conversion to be an unbearable assault on his identity