Laura Favaro
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
