Advice
Podcasters: do as I say, not as I do
Sometimes the best advice is simply not to go on a podcast
My advice to young writers
You are hoping for a successful career, but it’s going to take more than just the work
Lessons for the young
Epigrams for adolescents
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding