The “mulatto” Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
Not drinking but drowning
Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future
High old time
Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
How to travel in Europe
For the best in Europe, learn how to travel like a rich native
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business