The sphinx who reshaped Europe
The key to Europe’s future lies with Mario Draghi, the technocrat who sidelined politicians and saved the Euro, but who now needs them to succeed as Italy’s PM
The rise of Mrs Europe
A new EU is emerging. Will Ursula von der Leyen lead it to triumph or failure?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire