Fourth Crusade
A stirring tale of delicious complexity
From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age