Opera Fringe
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
