Matt Hancock
Just another minister
Matt Hancock is no master-deceiver, just an average embarrassment
Hancock of a thousand faces
Not another Matt Hancock reinvention
Can’t Matt Hancock piss off?
It seems like a reasonable request
Close the MP-to-media pipeline
You probably aren’t going to be good at television
Carry On Tories
Rishi Sunak could not escape Matt Hancock’s steamy grasp
A Hancock for the ages
Could our former health secretary actually be a time-travelling hero?
What happened to shame?
Our politicians could do with feeling worse about themselves
Bursting Boris’s bubble
Labour has found an attack line that has the benefit of being true
Making love to the camera
Tory MPs are astonished to discover that CCTV exists
He’s as mad as hell
The Speaker isn’t going to take it anymore – not from Boris at any rate.
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
