Burns Night
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)