Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
This too shall pass
People want their pre-covid lives back. It falls on the vigilant to make sure that happens
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer