The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
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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
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them