Linda Colley
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
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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
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of