Kirsty Stark
Kirsty Stark is a Cambridge graduate and incoming Oxford Law student
Suffering: the consequences
Dual reflections on on the vicissitudes of victim status
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
