Bertrand Russell
A very British crank
Bertrand Russell is almost too familiar a figure to be worth remembering
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unconquered by a
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
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Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley