Pat Rafter
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up