European Literature
Why the Odyssey matters
Its themes will always be relevant to the human experience
Puckish polymath
Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic