Model Kits
Rockets for Christmas
On model planes and lethal missiles
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
