Anthony Smith
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
At a pinch
on snuff and its accoutrements
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree