Goals
Self-help with Samuel Johnson
Improving ourselves takes good principles, not mere goals
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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
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned