The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
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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
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments