Private Eye
The sad reign of Ian Hislop
Appointed for his youth, he has become symbolic of cultural gerontocracy
Enemy of orthodoxy
Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
