John B. Thompson
Grubbing a living
These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious
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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
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding