Remembering Brian Micklethwait
The man who made libertarianism fun
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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
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications