Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
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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
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty