James Lees-Milne
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
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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
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working