Lobby Briefing
Shining limelight upon twilight?
Daily televised press conferences are a gift to the media class not to government
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place