The bright future of Scouse Tories
There are plenty of blues among the reds
Getting school history wrong
The myth of British educational parochialism
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
The mythologised history of the Left
Nearly everything you think you know about the history of the Labour Party is false
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
