Simon Hoare
Getting the barnacles off
Simon Hoare and David Hoey debate the merits of the Northern Ireland Protocol
Free traders win round one
The Agriculture Bill was cleared of all protectionist amendments
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
