A madman’s guide to Wagner
You don’t have to be crazy to enjoy Wagner, but it helps
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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
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness