Shetland Islands
Northerly winds of change
Graham Stewart visits Orkney and the Shetlands to find the islanders keen on independence — from Scotland
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
