Ella Whelan
November 2020: Letters to the Editor
Too kind to Trotsky
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Fraser Nelson’s immigration holdout
The columnist may still be fighting but the war has been lost
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
