Richard Holden
Repent, Richard Holden
The Conservative Party needs to hold itself to account
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
The stultification of the liberal mind
Ed Davey’s anti-political campaign is darker than it looks
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
On Américanisation
French life is being transformed by the influence of American culture
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Off to the races
The slow motion car crash continues
