António de Oliveira Salazar
Ahistorical rubbish
David Frum is wrong, the Salazar regime’s “biggest project” was a success
Portugal’s bookish dictator
At least in the eyes of his supporters, António de Oliveira Salazar succeeded in making Portugal great again
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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
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water