Home Secretary
Braverman’s dilemma
The Home Secretary was in an impossible situation, with Number 10 wanting the rhetoric of action without the substance
Fiddling as Rome burns
Don’t be neutral about Suella the firefighter
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
