journalists
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
Attack of the Hydies
How the Tillies and the Lillies are transforming right-wing newsrooms
When journalists self-censor
The media should report the news whomever it inconveniences
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
