Rick Gekoski
Gulliver’s travails
Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world