
Julian Gallant: Politics can support the arts without disturbing the artist
It has a constructive role to play, supporting artistic creativity without interfering with content.
It has a constructive role to play, supporting artistic creativity without interfering with content.
When his family fell on hard times, education made the difference. Were there to be a vacancy in that department, he would be an obvious candidate.
The questions are posed with a ponderousness that recalls Polonius as his most sententious: too much evidence, too little wit.
His columns from The Times are informed by his experience of what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t work.
Our rich cultural heritage is essential to the beating heart of this country, and must not be forgotten through Coronavirus.
The Treasury has been welded at the top to Number Ten. Now there’s a push to do more of the same to the Office.
People cannot simply be viewed as consumers or producers – there are other dimensions to policy, including the stewardship of the countryside.
It is a reversion to the old tribal idea: this people good, that people bad. It challenges the notion that we are all individuals, responsible for our own behaviour.
One has to pinch oneself to remember that as recently as last July May was Prime Minister, Hammond Chancellor of the Exchequer and Gauke Lord Chancellor.
Raab trod gingerly in Heseltine’s footsteps, while the Leader of the House presented the Shakespearean drama of politics.
He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.
The front runner on extension, Scotland, that Islamophobia inquiry, wrestling naked with Hunt – and taking a Trollope to bed in Downing Street.
We count four so far from our list of 109 who have changed their minds – and all of them were only “probables”.
The real flaw in Graham’s film was the implication that Vote Leave won by turning the European question into something else.
There are at least four big obstacles to any plan to crown him leader. And there’s no sign that he has endorsed it, anyway.