Goals
Self-help with Samuel Johnson
Improving ourselves takes good principles, not mere goals
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
