Was the Peterloo Massacre good for public health?
How pre-vaccination societies held greater freedoms than we do today
Should booby-traps be legal?
When the state fails to protect us many want to act themselves
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions