Sasha Johnson
The guns of Brixton
I listened to somebody shoot a man twice in the head
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead