Cities
Something in the Bath water
Liberal Democrats are ruining a beautiful city with pointless regulations and Remainer spite
Climate change: lessons from the past
The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive
The ghosts of Norwich
The callous destruction of an ancient city in the name of efficiency, modernity and a failed utopian vision of “the Good Life”
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)