Literary Review
The Queen’s Jubilee Book List: why did they bother?
The choices show a lack of levity, imagination and courage
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
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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
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home