Priti Patel
Priti Woke
The Home Secretary thinks there are too many white people in her department
Blobs for the boys
Priti Patel’s public spat shows No 10 needs to do better against the blob
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments