Rationing
The failure of central planning
It didn’t work in the late 1940s or the early 2020s
Sins of omission
Taking statistics out of context is a dangerous games, says Theodore Dalrymple
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?