At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
D stands for disgrace
He’ll start the defeat from right here
Useful idiot
Rishi Sunak is the Labour Party’s strongest asset
45 seconds to midnight
Say what you will of nuclear war but at least, unlike this election, it’s mercifully brief
The Incredible Sulk
Nigel Farage is all about entertainment — not difficult questions
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
Organic snake oil salesmen
The Greens have an easy answer for any question (well, almost any question)
Dad’s army
We’re all doomed
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations