Robert Jenrick
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Has Badenoch peaked?
No one should assume they know who will be the next Conservative leader
Stop the bores
Excuses leakier than the Portcullis House roof
The Tories’ immigration muddle
Why the singular focus on small boats?
The final toll
Raise a glass and stay briefly silent tonight in remembrance of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Opiate of the masses
TV has become a branch of the pharmaceutical industry doling out heavy sedatives
From the ashes, nothing
The façade of Robert Jenrick
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
