British Business Bank
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
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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
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived