Stephen Lawrence
The wrong kind of race murder
It’s double standards that the killing of white schoolboy Richard Everitt achieved none of the notoriety of Stephen Lawrence’s death
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay