Patrick Hamilton
Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square
Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
