Naomi Klein
Reject Naominomics
Ideas like Naomi Klein’s are bad for the economy (and for the environment)
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
