Nadia Whittome
Keeping schtum
Many politicians aren’t saying anything about the Supreme Court ruling
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?