Michael Ashcroft
Michael Ashcroft on the rise of Rishi Sunak: what is he thinking? What does he intend?
In this podcast, Graham Stewart talks to Michael Ashcroft, whose new book is the first biography to be written about the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Bred to be killed
The Captive-bred lion industry has been under fire for some time and Unfair Game will only add weight to calls for its cessation
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
