Alexander the Great
The boy who would be King of the World
Alex Rowson treats us to glimmering passages of life at Philip II’s court
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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
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game