Inspirations
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
Writer Dodie Smith’s influences were far from Primrose Hill…
Instead of the chocolate-box pink stucco houses of Primrose Hill, it was the castles and cottages of Suffolk which served as Smith’s inspiration
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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
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough