Shadow Cabinet
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Riding the fire horse
Nigel Farage has offered more questions than answers in a promising but perilous year for Reform
I Am Drama, says Starmer
“Here, have Yvette Cooper,” said 2008
Rebecca Long Bailey – classroom warrior
On schools policy, Keir Starmer is no heir to Blair
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive