Kevin Lygo
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
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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
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 fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under