Confederate Statues
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
