The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
