Spring Awakening
Grope springs eternal
Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
