Public Sector
Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
Britain’s squid pro quo
Economic growth is hindered by the profusion of “negative sum” public sector jobs
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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
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions