Bruce Springsteen
The year the music died
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
