Election 2019
Block Boris!
There is a risk that if Boris Johnson receives the most votes he might actually win. This is unacceptable
Mining for votes
Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election
Labour’s plan to turn back the clock on education
Corbyn proposes the most significant transferral of power back to town halls for more than a generation
Do Prime Ministers lose their seats?
There is no special place in the British electoral system for party leaders
Starting blocks
On the most important nomination stage in living memory
The Hartlepool Declaration
How much impact will Farage’s retreat really have?
Party people
Corbyn knows the crowd-pleasers, but can he play to a wider audience?
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
