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Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
