Artillery Row
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
