Earl of Strafford
The Favourite
Why Boris can’t bring himself to part with Dom
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
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
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
