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The Parallax Clueless
In which Nadine Dorries solves an international conspiracy and drinks a LOT of tea
Keeping the beaches open
What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s COVID response from Didactic Dom?
Cry God for Rishi
Rishi Sunak only wishes he had the prospects of Henry V
Rishiversary
How could anyone not like him?
This calls for Action Keir
Was all that glitters gold at the Labour Party Conference?
A bonfire of the straw men
Rishi Sunak declares war on policies that never existed
How Liz was (tin)foiled
Everybody was to blame but her
Sunak Mirror
Charlie Brooker couldn’t imagine anything so bleak as the Conservatives in 2023
The roof is falling in
Schools are not the only thing in danger of collapsing
Stop the bores
Excuses leakier than the Portcullis House roof
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
