A year in review: the National Trust
Is the Great Fracas of 2020-21 over?
BlobWatch season approaches
The National Trust is well on its way to becoming another soulless corporate body
No place for young’uns
Why are pensioners the favoured customer of the National Trust?
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
Speak loudly, and carry a small stick
The Tory Party under Rishi Sunak has been all bark and no bite
Nature neglected
In this election green policy only get airtime when it can be linked to jobs
Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
You can’t beat the left at its own game
Conservative attempts to reverse leftist victimology are doomed to fail
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold