Levelling Up
Opera is not elitist
Tired stereotypes enable philistine governance
Levelling up to where?
The chatterati are in no place to lecture
Wedlocked
Why the Government squeamishness on mentioning marriage?
Grow Britain by getting out of the way
Gove has swallowed the opposition’s patronising rationalisations of Brexit, along with their economically illiterate solutions
Doubling down, not levelling up
Why Gove’s plan is dead on arrival
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself