Oxford Playhouse
Noel Coward’s public genius
This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness