History
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under