Chernobyl
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
Anatomy of disaster
The psychology of political incompetence is brought out well in Niall Ferguson’s Doom
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Anti-Christian bias is rife in Employment Tribunals
If you’re Christian, you can no longer count on a fair hearing in workplace disputes
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere