General 2024
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
