Patricia Hodge
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
Irish Gothic and Noel Coward romance on the stage, and remembering actress Hayden Gywnne
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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
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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
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead