Pollyannaish study is a missed opportunity
Being Victorian: How it Felt Then, Why it Matters Now by Jamie Camplin
The lanyard class Archbishop
Sarah Mullally is the pure distilled essence of everything wrong with the Church of England
How the first culture war ended
The Whig vs Tory battle was resolved through pragmatism and compromise
On first going to church
The bromides of secular materialism are not enough to explain and justify life
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world