Benedict Spence
Benedict Spence is a freelance commentator who has written for The Telegraph, The Independent, The Spectator, City AM and elsewhere. He tweets at @BenedictSpence
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
The problem with football pundits
Why are we so often stuck with inarticulate ex-pros?
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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
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
