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Hope and recrimination in the City of Light
Macron gets a hard time but Paris is beginning to bustle
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures