Orson Welles
Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
