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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs