John Oliver
Autism and the cost of care
For all US healthcare’s faults, it outperforms the NHS on autism provision
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
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
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
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