If
‘You’ll be a Man, my son!’
Rudyard Kipling’s (in)famous poem “If” reverberates with valuably relevant and humane advice for 2020 Britain
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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
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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
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
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.