Katharina Wagner
Is the party over for festivals?
Why music festivals have lost their purpose
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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
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel