Sue Gray
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Johnson’s last stand?
We could witness the twilight of Boris Johnson’s political career today
Comical in its excess
Boris Johnson’s last stand
The plot against Boris
Johnson is simply trying to confuse matters
Whitehall shirks the blame game
Are civil servants the blameless dupes of “partygate”?
The right to a wrong-time to party
The Prime Minister remains sorry but not sorry
Courting disaster
Number 10, as a court, is now more-or-less sui generis
Beyond Blunderdome
Minister, this is switch, can you lie?
Who knew Boris would etc etc?
Operation Save Greased Piglet is a-slither
The Ensueing
Sue Gray’s report certainly can’t make anything worse
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
