Columns

The case for more royals

This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy

Pen pusher

My fascination with fountain pens

The W-word

The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie

Venice’s tortuous tourist tax

How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?

How to destroy football

“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing

Legal laughs

Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing

Hobbs recalled

Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken

Why not the Taliban Line?

These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive

The wrong kind of groupthink

Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?

Dumbing down the priesthood

Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away