Beeching Cuts
Beeching’s brutal legacy
The wounds of our lost railways still linger
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous