Ivan Vasiliev
A riveting selection of itinerant tunes
Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future