Owen Jones vs Robert Webb
What happens when you don’t recant from criticising trans orthodoxy?
Is the Union breaking up?
Nationalist parties have a vested interest in falling short of independence
Allan Pettersson: Barefoot songs (BIS)
Sweden scorned the composer who could have been its greatest
The empire strikes back
France is going to the polls in the shadow of its colonial past
Why nuclear abolition should fail
The harsh reality is that the nuclear revolution is irreversible and makes major wars significantly less likely
Drum fast, die young?
Taylor Hawkins is not the only drummer to meet with an early grave
More of the same news from the BBC
Stonewall’s agenda is still embedded in the Corporation’s culture
Paradise regained
The start of each growing season is a return to a past season’s “lost” garden
When bad reviews attack
Book reviews are not the preserve of the literary dilettantes — they have real power
Hands On or Hands Off?
Fracking – a whole new Tory faultline
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
The Critic Books Podcast: Portable Magic
Lucasta Miller discusses Emma Smith’s new book