Centralisation
Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better