Artillery Row
Mass critical
Pope Francis’s campaign against the Latin Mass was always disingenuous
A riveting selection of itinerant tunes
Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)
The railway children’s later life
A new production of The Railway Children is a grand British day out
Going Dutch
On the pleasures of learning an unsung language
Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history
History is a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues
We need democracy, not the permanent bureaucracy
Civil servants are hampering the work of our elected representatives
The Conservatives must clean their rooms
Conservative MPs appear to have forgotten that improvement starts at home
The National Library of Scotland is a national embarrassment
Dissent is marginalised amid establishment sycophancy
Things can only get worse
There is a vast epistemic divide between those who experience decline, and those who don’t
The transferable skills scam
How higher education learned to stop worrying about disciplines and love generic competencies
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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
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback