Political History
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
The dangers of devolution
It could lead to Britain being dismembered
Playing that pulls no punches
Kholodenko is in the elite of classical pianists
A flawed blueprint for the Left
How far can the Left’s project succeed without its totemic leader?
Labour’s reluctant royalists
How Labour leaders from Wilson to Starmer fell for The Queen
Labour and monarchy
Not the relationship one might think
Why are British politicians such utter bores?
Mediocre people for mediocre times
The odd couples
Against the Prime Minister/Chancellor diarchy
This is Starmer’s chance
He could be the next Harold Wilson
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
