Issue: June 2021
The road to Hartlepool pier
The bourgeoisification of Labour isn’t new. It was catalogued in Orwell’s scabrously entertaining dissection of socialism
Notes on a doomed affair
Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence
He’s not the Messiah!
Robert Thicknesse ruminates on The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko
An affront to justice
New safeguards are needed after the Post Office acted as investigator and prosecutor
Debutant novels and great expectations
John Self on debut novels that provide an insight into publishing in Britain
America first
No one can sensibly doubt that American primacy is much more agreeable to us than Chinese hegemony
The diary of Dilyn the dog
Bozzo has a new food for me: little bits of paper with numbers on
Kenneth Tynan: a riposte to Equity
Robin Ashenden says the critic would have declared war on an ill-judged edict
Play nice together
Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens need to work as one if they are to overcome an electoral system that helps the Conservatives
Max & Heidi Whitlow
Round Robiners
