Music Review
The brilliance of Richard Thompson
What sounds like two guitars overlaid in the studio is all coming from him
On “Festen” and forgetting
The latest production of the Royal Opera was gripping but occasionally unconvincing
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid