Great Britain
The NYT versus GB
What did Britain do to the New York Times?
Why shouldn’t Poland be richer than Britain?
It’s not the 80s anymore
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
St George didn’t die for this
English nationalism is a paper dragon
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
Supporting multiculturalism is the natural conservative position
Attacking it attacks the very essence of Britishness
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Soft power superpower?
It’s easy to mock, but British influence is real — and a potent tool for good
Learning to love Big Brother
A contemporary political drama uses the double whammy of Covid and Brexit to reanimate older, primeval forces
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
