Burma
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
Kipling and Sinatra in Burma
The words Kipling chose should not be cancelled even if Frank Sinatra had a bit too much fun with them
Tarnished golden land
Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
