The lovelorn lady who broke the rules
A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade
Many lives of the first everywoman
Wife of Bath is a brand name all will recognise
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
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
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories