Margaret Thatcher
Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatchers
Charles Moore’s multi-volume biography of Thatcher harks back to an ancient tradition
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation