NIC tax increase
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering