motte and bailey
Fort Mordaunt – a castle with a keep
Penny Mordaunt treats us to her motte and bailey defence
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned