Carnival
Defying a pervert
We have internalised the belief that to point out the glaringly obvious is not only cruel but aggressive
Idiots and Italian art
I have to bite my tongue or risk being thrown off the flight to London
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Notting Hill Carnival needs to clean up its act
The street party shouldn’t be above criticism
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion