Sessions Arts Club
Artistry in the kitchen
Calmly brilliant cooking rescues a vogueish restaurant full of underwhelming art
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions