Tony Blair
Dr Labourstein’s monster
Knighthood or no knighthood, Tony Blair will never be re-habilitated
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever
Making the hard choices
Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11
How New Labour made Boris Johnson
Twenty years ago, the Conservative Party was at its lowest ebb. But on the night of New Labour’s greatest triumph, one man promised to revive their fortunes…
There’s nothing so ex as an ex-PM
Rejected and reviled former prime ministers should stay in the political graveyard where they belong
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
Blair is back. And so is Prudence
Labour will take a long view on borrowing in order to avoid being the party of big tax rises
The horror versus the farce
25 years on from Srebrenica and our Balkan interventions
Old school reformer
Eric understood that the system had to stop being a relic of the past
Harry, Meghan (and Jeremy) want to be alone
LA may not be the place for true socialist privacy
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
