Subsidies
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
A taxing read
Industrial subsidies and the English language
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
