Army
Is this what equality means?
US women could be about to achieve a level of equality not all of them actually want, by becoming eligible to be drafted in a time of war
Closet hippy of the SAS
Billingham is tight-lipped about his time in the SAS. His work afterwards provides the funniest anecdotes
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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 corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone