Tax rises
How Britain became a gerontocracy
Tory short-termism has worn itself out
Cottage industry
The conservative case for doubling council tax
Freaky Friday
Tories and Labour become each other
Have cake. Eat cake. More cake. What cake?
Boris breaks his promises by announcing he has a plan
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
