Paul Embery
The vindication of Paul Embery
The judgement will go down as one of the great working-class victories of our time
Sincerely ducking the hard questions
Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
The abdication of responsibility
A monarch quitting undercuts the point of the institution they represent
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?