Oliver Dowden
Will Boris go for woke?
The Common Sense Group is seeking to stiffen the government’s resolve
The Huawei rebels are still up for a fight
Many Tory MPs think the U-turn on Huawei does not go far enough
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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
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries