Lore Segal
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam