James Delbourgo
To have, to hold — and to create
Beauty isn’t merely to be owned, but is something to be loved and passed on
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions