Patrick Vallance
Surely the final series
Script writers attempt to spice up “Covid briefings” with the Brazilian variant
If Brady is blocked – what next?
Conservative backbenchers are considering their options
Two men and a Boris
Three is the magic number. Or six. We don’t know what the magic number is
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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
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty