David Twiston Davies
The way we were
Telegraph letters, the nation, & David Twiston Davies, 1945-2020
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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
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to