Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Standing side by side with angels
Like Lucifer, Pico thought himself too brilliant to stand below angels in God’s Hierarchy
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
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unconquered by a
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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
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
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup