Oliver Rackham
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
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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
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders