Normandy
Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
Studio: Liam O’Connor’s British Normandy Memorial
A dignified classical design respects its setting and the memory of wartime sacrifice
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
