Ghost Stories
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Phantom on the Piccadilly Line
See it, say it, haunted
Ghosts at the feast
Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
