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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
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
We can Handel more
Handel: Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline &c. (Prospero)
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
We do not have to choose between mass migration and growth
Critics of mass migration have to be careful not to concede too much in their arguments