Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson
Bad behaviour has to come with consequences
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
Off to the races
The slow motion car crash continues
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
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
