Reparations
Allocating blame in the name of climate change
Dwelling on the question of historical responsibility for climate change helps no one
Reparations and the rectory
Can the Church of England buy its way into progressive paradise?
Why we should resist academic calls for climate reparations
Simply blaming the West is easy but wrong
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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)
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools