The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Thinly-veiled but enjoyable nonsense
Donald Trump should write a novel to at least give him the chance to deliver a bit of payback for this release by Hillary Clinton
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system