Columns
Piers and the gospel of gammon
The last thing I need is some repugnant gammon scumbag like Morgan polluting the world with his moronic boomer ideas
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
Public spending and public health
Theodore Dalrymple says the connection between expenditure and result is extremely tenuous
Shop these shoppers!
Saintly Sainsburys vs Waitrose’s white supremacists
Silk but no silken tongue
Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear
Time’s up for licence fee
The BBC must face reality over its future funding
Condemned to a life sentence
We treat prisoners of war better than care home residents
“Trans”
Dominic Green on the history of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
The Trans troubles of the Middle Ages
The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at