Hannah Spencer
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Gorton and Denton: the view from the left
Labour have handed the Greens a victory that now threatens to unpick Keir Starmer’s leadership
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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
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life