Starving for a good argument
Henry Dimbleby’s new book doesn’t hit the spot
The roots of school rage
The closure of grammar schools entrenched privilege
The madness of crowds
Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts
Interesting times
The problem with low interest rates
Smashed stereotypes or revisionist reveries?
Why judge prohibitionists by their words when we can judge them by their actions?
Outside the Westminster bubble
The attack on Keir Starmer was not the result of Boris Johnson’s rhetoric
UnSAGE Covid Jeremiahs
Our lives have been in the hands of these glorified numerologists for too long
The myth of childhood obesity
The statistics are unfit for purpose
Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
Sweet taste of sovereignty
It seems “Global Britain” is smaller and less delicious
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
