A love letter to hard-won wisdom
They paid the bills through the tutorials that trained the next generation
How to avoid the Third World War
Tucker marries an English School insight with the thought of two giants of philosophy
Dissection of a doomed doctrine
By 2016, the once hegemonic neoliberal order came apart
Frustrating life of a man of ideas
We remain interested in Tocqueville because of the power of his thought, not his life story
Fight things that really matter
We must not capitulate to self-indulgent and hypocritical student outrage over Cambridge’s Seeley Library
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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
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran