Tom McTague
How Europe failed us
How we reached the Brexit we have
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Starmer’s Indian takeaway
The Government’s India trade deal makes hiring imported workers significantly cheaper than employing British ones
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid