Cottages
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age