Myra Hess
Keeping music alive during the Blitz
Pianist Myra Hess brought classical music to the rubble of wartime London
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence