Dickie Bird
Farewell to a cricket legend
Harold “Dickie” Bird lived with infectious enthusiasm
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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 hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
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
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity