Brendan Simms
Brendan Simms is Director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details