Political Clothing
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation