Polemic
A blunderbuss blast at “progressives”
Progress is too important to be left to the progressives
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening