British Politics
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
