Glowing, noble and assured
A tribute to Victorian churches
A Valhalla of remembrance
The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?
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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
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
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