Comic Books
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian