Hygiene
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
There’s truth in the toilet
Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution
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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
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting