Richard Wagner
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
Can bad people be good artists?
The moral standards of creative giants
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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
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List