Artillery Row
The economy that forgot how to learn
Capitalism has not been too cruel — we have tried to make it too kind
Is Britain ungovernable?
Our lack of a shared political identity makes it impossible to govern for everyone
Intriguing flaws
Man and Boy, Dorfman Theatre
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
How will AI shape criticism?
Like it or loathe it, generative AI is influencing how we write and edit
Everyone wants to live in the 90s
We have to get serious about rebuilding British culture
Britain should accept the American bear hug
Despite everything, the special relationship truly is special
The great extraction
Remittances sit at the heart of Britain’s migration model, yet no one is talking about them
Death by lawyers
How excessive legalism can ruin a political system
Abortion extremism is deeply dangerous
Women are at risk as well as unborn children
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create