Lance Armstrong
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
