Man Made Wonders
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto