Peter Ackroyd
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Can London never change?
Peter Ackroyd treated the city as a semi-living entity resistant to human intervention
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President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean