Sydney Carton
Sydney Carton is an English writer
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”