Carrie Symonds
All the news fit to post
Are Freedom of Information requests really being politically policed by the Cabinet Office?
The First Friend
How the taxpayer funds Nimco Ali
The historical role of the maîtresse-en-titre
Nigel Jones looks at how the mistresses and girlfriends of rulers have exerted political power throughout history
“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is
Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind
The end of the skin game
Richard D. North charts the rise and fall of the British fur trade
Grousing more
Patrick Galbraith says the rural vote is up for grabs
The true value of trophy hunting
When big game doesn’t pay, it is replaced by cow and plough
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
