1990s
The beginning of the end of the end of history
How the nineties helped to build the modern world
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
