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Prohibitionist alchemy
More alcohol advertising does not mean more drinking
Eccentricities and obsessions
Novels that say a lot without making lots of noise
Big pay rises won’t beat inflation
The poor are best helped through tax and benefits, not boosting the minimum wage
Requiem for London’s music
How London has lost its place as a classical music capital.
Fantasies of urban order
Gove’s Cambridge dreams reek of desperation
Starmer’s TRA test
What Keir Starmer could learn from Stonewall’s cowardice
London’s monocultural history
It is nonsense to claim that London was “built by immigrants”
Uni tunes (w/ Charlie Bentley-Astor)
Ideas that deserve discussion, not cancellation
Rhodes scholars
Lisa Hilton enjoys a simple and superlative Greek-Italian taverna in the Aegean
Build back greener
We are going to need skilled workers, factories and a resilient and self-sufficient economy