UK Politics
The diary of Dilyn the dog
You think you’ve got it bad
Sunak leads the retreat
A windfall tax is apparently not a windfall tax if the Tories introduce it
If it’s broken, fix it
The NI Protocol has not worked, and the EU has done nothing to live up to its commitment to it being temporary
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Shapps is shocked, shocked!
The Prime Minister’s defence calls in a specialist
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
No-demand TV
Have We Got Politicians for You
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
