Green Shirts
“Death to the Bank of England!”
Do the origins of Mark Drakeford’s Wales experiment lie with the Green Shirts?
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
