Pageantry
In praise of pomp and pageantry
We must not have a stripped-down coronation
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms