The bright future of Scouse Tories
There are plenty of blues among the reds
Getting school history wrong
The myth of British educational parochialism
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
The mythologised history of the Left
Nearly everything you think you know about the history of the Labour Party is false
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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
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections