What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
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unconquered by a
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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
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity