George Lansbury
The road to Hartlepool pier
The bourgeoisification of Labour isn’t new. It was catalogued in Orwell’s scabrously entertaining dissection of socialism
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
