Westminster
Remembering Sir David Amess
Well loved by Commons staff and MPs alike
The Establishment doesn’t understand free speech
The Government needs to bite the bullet and demonstrate political conviction over free speech
IPSA That Man Again
In the future, everyone will be a WAG admin for 15 groups
A crisp House white
Christopher Pincher on the wine of Westminster
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
