Politics
Politics is about winning
Ideas and values matter but they matter a lot less if you are not in power
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
What is it with populists and comical haircuts?
Crazy hair can be as much of an asset to a firebrand politician as crazy rhetoric
Two cheers for Goodwinism
Is Matthew Goodwin right about shifting to the left on economics?
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unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety