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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan