Elmore Leonard
Small lives and violent deaths
Not so much nailing down a topic as pricking it with a thousand needles
Murders for September
The best and worst crime fiction for September
Murders for May
A look at some murderously good talent and some old re-releases
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long