Downing Street
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
Clear them all out
Downing Street officials should be held to higher standards
How did it all go so wrong for Liz Truss?
The former prime minister was fundamentally right in her diagnosis of the situation at home and abroad and what should be done about it
The diary of Larry the Cat
Here came the new boss
The ghosts of PMs past
No more smiles on a haunted Downing Street
Hello Liz
Sweet offerings in the rain
Fifty shades of muck
The lost art of governing your tongue
How do you define a party anyway?
Downing street was caught in a trap of its own making
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
