Book Review
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
This history of sport fails to bowl over
An inadequate night watchmen of the genre
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
Touchy-feely and not that new really
We’re more than our emotions
Empire of the Imagination
Historical metafiction
Buccaneer of the Antarctic
The heroic age of polar exploration ended with Shackleton’s death
The hidden greatness of snowflakes
Hannah Jewell’s blog-post-turned-self-help-book says we should all aspire
He got out alive
From Belsen concentration camp to eminent British sculptor
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
