Prime Minister
A hopeful debut
But beware of disappointments
Hello Liz
Sweet offerings in the rain
Why I have hope in Liz
Truss is an optimistic politician who has been underestimated by her detractors
Bye bye, BoJo
He wasted his time in power
Against Brown-nosers
We should hear less from former PMs
Why are British politicians such utter bores?
Mediocre people for mediocre times
The odd couples
Against the Prime Minister/Chancellor diarchy
A pair of presidential PMs
Is Boris Johnson reminiscent of Churchill or a very different PM?
What is good in life, Theresa?
All good things come to an end; and Boris too
All Trussed up
Everything was on track for Liz, until Mordaunt derailed the campaign
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
