Communism
November 2020: Letters to the Editor
Too kind to Trotsky
Marxist Magic Realism
How Soviet society, gripped by political correctness, descended into madness
The 21st century Bolshevik
Brexit showed the ruling elite is still terrified by Trotsky’s ideas of working class upheaval
Rich and red: The USSR’s prize assets
The wealthy young Americans who laboured for decades to help the communist cause
Inside university Marxist societies
One student’s escape from a campus cult
A spy all along
Morton Sobell went on trial for espionage with the Rosenbergs. His devotion to communism fascinated me
Assassinating Edward VIII
Did MI5 let one of their own informants have a go at the king?
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws