Admiral Chris Parry
Agincourt in the act
The Tories can’t resist the culture war bait
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union