Poundbury
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Don’t be down on Poundbury
More spacious, more green and better built than any other suburban development
The man with a masterplan
The visionary architect Léon Krier, chosen by King Charles to create his model village, Poundbury
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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
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis