John Bradby Blake
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
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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
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile