M R James
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
Starmer and the blob
The Conservatives must focus on our constitutional order
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Did QE cost taxpayers?
Claims that the Bank of England’s programme cost billions are a red herring
Our attitude towards MPs is inconsistent
We hate career politicians, but we want politicians to focus entirely on their career
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
The problem with prescriptions
Concerns about over-prescription should not be trivialised or problematised
Lone danger
One certainly wouldn’t expect anything resembling loyalty from the wolves running “Theatreland”