Keir Hardie
What Labour owes to Scotland
Can Keir Starmer succeed without the land of Keir Hardie?
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand