Columns

Six ways to make things better

Bringing back the Net Book Agreement would be a good start for badly-paid authors

Fundragers splash the cash

The money being poured into US elections is soaring – but it’s often wasted

See, the conqu’ring hero comes – to be ridiculed by vegans

A Procrustean bed of critical theory is examining a British military hero – with predictable results

Queen of Kitsch

Frida Kahlo: Her brand has quickly spread from cult to cliché

Unfixing Parliament

The governent’s attempt to regain the right to call an election is problematic

Biden’s brave new world

As we move into 2021, Biden’s message resounds throughout our new woke empire

Plague and pestilence

Covid-19 has reawakened the medieval superstition that bad things happen to bad people

Diego Maradona was not a victim

We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple

Power to the pigs and les keufs

France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing

Unproductive investment

Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases