Coats
In praise of the proper winter coat
We have nothing to lose but our puffer jackets
Cape crusader
Hannah Betts loves the theatrical flourish of a cloak
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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
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise