Visual Culture
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
