Artillery Row
What did the Tory wets expect?
The Sensibles should reassess how sensible they have actually been
God alone can bind our nation together
The Church may yet prove to be the last anchor of national life
What’s the point of a council?
The Epping model vs the Birmingham model
Some observations on public commemoration
Memorials should be meaningful, not mawkish
No relationship with the keyboard
Pierre Boulez/Alfred Schnittke: Piano works (Naxos/BIS)
The calamities of Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd
Scottish ferries are in a ferry bad shape
Rallying round the flag
Flags can be a symbol of defiance when patriotism is being demonised
America’s rebuke ought to sting
Is the special relationship living on a prayer?
The German gravy train
Politicians in Germany are demanding more from the electorate while expecting more for themselves
Public health and the eternal paternalist
Public health can be a Trojan horse for anti-capitalism
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency