Jessica Duchen
Keeping music alive during the Blitz
Pianist Myra Hess brought classical music to the rubble of wartime London
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor