Alex Massie
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
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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
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy