Simon Clarke
Simon Clarke is the Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. He served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in Liz Truss’s Government, and before that as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Boris Johnson
How did it all go so wrong for Liz Truss?
The former prime minister was fundamentally right in her diagnosis of the situation at home and abroad and what should be done about it
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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
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
