Aneurin Bevan
Scum of Britain, unite!
Enterprising politicians can use insults to their own advantage
Can Labour learn to love the market?
As state socialism advances on all fronts, what is Labour’s real electoral future?
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
The problem with prescriptions
Concerns about over-prescription should not be trivialised or problematised
The Greens are worse than useless
Their reputation for being nice if a touch naive is far too generous
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
What does surrogacy say about us?
We are putting the interests of adults above those of children
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
Balance the books
Britain’s soaring debt may not be as sustainable in the long term as figures suggest
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)