Elephant and Castle
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust