Robert Peel
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
The big Tory lie
They promised high-skill immigration. We got something else entirely
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The multi-matrixed revolutions
Predictions of a new Cold War understate the complexity of the future