Westminster
What Britain needs next
Whoever replaces Boris Johnson has to make radical change
Why Boris clung on
The Prime Minister knows his legacy is on the line
Charge of the Lightweight Brigade
Into the valley of death rode the 358
The case for dismissal
Apologies are the end, going is the start
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong
A Commons grilling
Boris vs Keir once again provides more heat than energy
Brought to light
May the reprieve of Westminster’s gas lamps become a full pardon
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
The Critic’s new home
Ecclesiastical textiles, Regency architecture and relief carvings: welcome to The Critic’s new address
Remembering Sir David Amess
Well loved by Commons staff and MPs alike
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
