It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Lessons of The Jetsons
The economic future foretold by the 1960s cartoon could hardly have been wider of the mark
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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
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future