Man About Town
It’s a wrap
London seems like a brave new world after touching down from Venice
Sock it to ‘em
Omicron-cancelled events and surprised marionettes
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
