The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Britain should welcome the death of the Special Relationship
Our one-sided attachment to the US is damaging our opportunities
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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
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat