British Music
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
