Queen Victoria
Who’s afraid of Queen Victoria?
Attacks on monuments perpetuate the Victoria cult
Will the Chinese “decolonise” Hong Kong?
Will a newly assertive Beijing seek to “decolonise” Hong Kong of the last visible signs of its colonial past?
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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
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to