Frank Richards
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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
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The truth behind The Salt Path
A rampage across middle-class rural England with the conspiratorial intimacy of Bonnie and Clyde
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity