Summer Season
A very superior Season
Today’s Season may be more democratic and international than the old, but those in the know still cherish the hot tickets that guarantee exclusivity
Serve up a symphony
Simplicity is best for a Glyndebourne picnic
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
