Coal
The Miners’ Last Stand
Fifty years ago, the miners took on a Conservative Government and won
A principled non-resignation
Does Trudy Harrison still think opponents of the coal mine are in cloud cuckoo land?
Mining for votes
Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
