Great British Railways
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
August/September 2021: Letters to the Editor
Samuel Beckett is at his best when he’s being brief
Back to the future
The new Great British Railways should abolish the garish sweet shop designs of today’s trains and look to the glorious liveries of the past
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
