Tehran
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
This drama in Tehran is fictional
The spy drama never flinches from portraying the savagery of the Ayatollahs’ regime
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods