Archives
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
