Orchids
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
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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
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
