Sir Bernard Jenkin
At the court of parliament’s aristocracy
Rank and rules are pulled at the Liaison Committee “super group”
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The joy of old English
Interest in language was once the domain of antiquarians and clergymen
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?