Hats
The silk road
Martin Ellis Jones brought colour to the world as well as hats
Pop on a party hat
Jazz up your wardrobe with perfect headwear
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
Is it time to get our thinking caps on?
Rev Steve Morris explains how we can repurpose the smoking cap away from the dandies and back to functional wear
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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
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
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