Food and Drunk
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
