Local Elections 2023
The slippery slope to basic standards
How has the demand for “access” overridden basic requirements?
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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
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature