Don Bradman
Chasing Perfection
Recalling the Australia cricket team who came to Britain 75 years ago and left unbeaten in 34 matches
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy