Fire Brigades Union
The vindication of Paul Embery
The judgement will go down as one of the great working-class victories of our time
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
