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Anna Fedorova: Liberté (Channel Classics)
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo