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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The man who defied the ministry
Tom Rolt, whose rescue of the Talyllyn Railway provided a model of how we can stand up to the homogenistion of our culture