Jack Hobbs
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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unconquered by a
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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
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism