Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
