Michael Gove
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Where are my children going to live?
The government owes us answers
Fantasies of urban order
Gove’s Cambridge dreams reek of desperation
Awe-inspiring shamelessness
Michael Gove fails the test
Abolish the leaseholds
Building homes is useless if it doesn’t lead to ownership
A cynical attack on the British holiday
The government’s new scheme is worse than useless
No party for female voters
Gender-critical feminists have almost no one worth supporting
National disservice
Young people have little to be grateful for, so why should they “give back”?
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Please remember, terrorism is evil
Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit
Loony tunes
Opera begs leave to celebrate lunacy in a different way
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
Here comes trouble
Farage is going to cause huge headaches for the Tories, and may be here to stay
