Railways
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
Natural health service
Theodore Dalrymple on the naturalness of what we eat
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity