Peers
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down