Drinking
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
Calling time on closing times
Pubs should be allowed to stay open longer
Minimum pricing, miserable results
Minimum pricing has not succeeded even on its own terms
In defence of booze
The dangers of alcohol are being overstated
Osborne’s joyless crusade
Are times not hard enough already?
The virtues of vice
There is always risk with reward
Whatever happened to the British bohemian?
Twilight of the Soho set
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
