Tom Chivers
Bestiality is worse than eating meat
Tom Chivers is wrong about having sex with animals
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
