Gulliver’s travails
Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift
Vintage volume: The Story of Wine
The story of wine is a glorious story which illuminates the topics of more conventional histories
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
Vinous Valhalla
David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order