trade deals
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
UK manufacturing is significantly outperforming as a result of Brexit
The doomsters are wrong about Brexit — again
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing