Gulliver’s Travels
Cutting the silken threads
A new think tank can help a future Reform government escape the ties that paralyse Britain
Gulliver’s travails
Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift
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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
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree