Kemi Badenoch
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Stop telling children the world hates them
It is not kind or truthful to scare children into loyalty
Badenoch’s guidance is a classic Tory fudge
It clarifies far less than it leaves confused
The Tories’ phony peace
The real battle of ideas will begin when the party’s time in office reaches the end of the road
Bin Lizzie
The Tories cannot win with Truss
The coming Tory crack-up
The MPs are at odds with the members
It should have been Kemi
The Tories may have just thrown away the next election
All Trussed up
Everything was on track for Liz, until Mordaunt derailed the campaign
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
