Barney Hoskyns
Barney Hoskyns is Editorial Director of Rock’s Backpages. He tweets at @BarneyHoskyns
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
