Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production