Banking party poopers
When we set up the Reclaim Party, we met every type of establishment obstacle
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture