David Byrne
American Utopia
Facts are overlooked in American Utopia’s HBO concert film to accommodate the systemic white racism narrative
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
