Lincoln Jopp
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
