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?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at