Maglev
Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The disingenuous anti-vax blame game
People have short memories about the MMR scare
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
