Prime Ministers
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
