Interior of a typical, small public bar in The Old House, Ightham Common, Kent (photo credit: Geoff Brandwood, 2015).
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Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
