Left-Wing Politics
The left don’t need Big John
Political movements embarrass themselves by trying to recruit unlikely spokespeople
The British left has descended into madness
Whilst the national media focus on Reform, the left is seeing its own foment
Why on Earth do people listen to “The Rest Is Politics”?
Left-leaning bourgeois Brits need their centrist comfort blanket
Jeremy Corbyn could change British politics again
“Your Party” is bad news for Keir Starmer
In defence of Blue Labour
It might be old-fashioned and romantic but it has been ahead of the times
Blue Labour offers bad answers to the wrong questions
Its combination of stale economics and sinister moralism should be rejected
How the anti-woke won
The left should have listened to its own dissidents
How the British Left triumphed and failed
Their ideas have failed without them even achieving electoral success
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses