Fuel
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Our energy policies have run out of puff
The government’s £1.8bn windfall for wind farms is a storm of stupidity
We need nuclear now
Investing in our future has never been more vital
It is time the UK got real about energy
Our energy system defies the laws on which our prosperity depends
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet