Food and Drunk
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud