Darwin Friend
Darwin Friend is head of research at the TaxPayers’ Alliance
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties