Claire Foy
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense