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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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain