Captain Tom
In defence of the Ingram-Moores
Don’t blame them; blame yourself
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK