Birmingham
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes