Downing Street Briefing
Once, twice, three times a briefing
Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?
Shining limelight upon twilight?
Daily televised press conferences are a gift to the media class not to government
Defending a sticky wicket
Supporting Dom Cummings, Grant Shapps is the Boycott of press conference performers
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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
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain