Thomas Cook
Holidays take a pounding
An entertaining new history of British tourism is well timed
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
