Gavin Barwell
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
Contra Braverman’s critics
Liberals and leftists wring their hands while avoiding the real issues
Badgers complaining about foxes eating chickens
Some of the government’s critics need more introspection
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
Boris comes down from the mountain
Is he the Tory messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Blame Boris for Britain’s borders
Boris Johnson is no lost Conservative hero — he did tremendous harm
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist