James Le Fanu
James Le Fanu is a doctor, columnist and historian of science and medicine. He tweets at @JamesLeFanu
Flying fiends
The wasp may be hated, but you’d be amazed by its intelligence
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
