Alan Clark
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
The day terrorism won
The murder of Ian Gow – thirty years on
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy