Face masks diminish the romance of everyday life
Smiling – one of the primary expressions of our common humanity – has been rendered invisible by the ubiquity of face masks
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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
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false