Jokes
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
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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
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?