Confederate Statues
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Like a homecoming
A haunted house