HS2
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
Sunak’s folly
The Chancellor’s rash splurge on infrastructure is a worrying sign that Britain’s economic policy is heading in the wrong direction
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?