General Election 2024
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
The follies of the wets
There is nothing “moderate” about the Tory centrists
Repent, Richard Holden
The Conservative Party needs to hold itself to account
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
No room for reform?
We should hope that even the worst people can change
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
