John Lewis-Stempel
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet