Canals
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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
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
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion