Jack Thorne
Midsummer fever dream
What is the direction of theatre for the next season?
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
