British MPs
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Barry Huggins
Barry, unusually for a Tory MP, has literary leanings
Was she more than pie in the sky?
We all laughed at the former PM but her radical message might have been right
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
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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
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
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
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead