Kenneth Branagh
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
All mouth, no trousers?
Kenneth Branagh does seem to like taking his clothes off
Why I “took the knee”
Following a brief loss of balance in a London watering hole I ‘took the knee’ – but that doesn’t detract from the symbolism
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Embrace uncool Britannia
Warhammer is a barnstorming British success, so why the lack of recognition?
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
