Tempest
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
What is the British Army for and where is it heading?
Will higher defence spending go on tech or boots on the ground?
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
