Innovation
The EU red tape export racket
Brussels is drowning South Africa in bureaucracy
The Tories have a nostalgia problem
Modern leaders must focus on modern problems
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
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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
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages