Raymond Kennedy
A fully-packed bookcase
Three books that each offer a traditional holiday-reading pleasure
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
