Clement Atlee
The failure of central planning
It didn’t work in the late 1940s or the early 2020s
Happy New Keir!
Starmer channels his Mr Darcy
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone