Sontag
Among the deathworks
On culturing culture
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
