Basil Bunting
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
An anti-gambling bonanza
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An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable