Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
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unconquered by a
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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
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working