Names
The decline of the great literary name
Where are the Don Quixotes and the Anna Kareninas of the modern age?
Game of the name
The naming of horses can be wonderfully inventive
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
The Rise of the Dominics
Dominic Green on the prevalence of his own name
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved