Dress Codes
Kiwi shoe polish and civilisation
To dress respectably is to dress respectfully
Leaking modernity
We need boundaries to be free
Earning your pinstripes
There are times, even in our dressed-down age, when clothes maketh the deal
Ties out, tattoos in
Whether ties are out or tattoos are in, there is a performative aspect that in both cases can hide a murkier if not awful truth
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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
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
A below-par Riley is still better than most
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Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are