minimum wage
Escaping Britain’s low-wage trap
Only sustained wage growth will restore trust in the economy
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
How to take on the culture warriors
Determining what is and isn’t appropriate is not the job of thought-policing left authoritarians
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
