Edith Somerville
British sporting art
Two views of the same country
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart