minimum wage
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Escaping Britain’s low-wage trap
Only sustained wage growth will restore trust in the economy
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Don’t let it go
Communal singing is good for the soul
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
