Roald Dahl
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Giant is electrifying and unmissable
It is a play of nuance and three dimensions, not agitprop
Speaking English is colonial terrorism
In fact, what’s so good about speech anyway?
The great relabelling
Linguistic tweaks won’t save us all
Is it time to cancel Roald Dahl – or to celebrate him?
We should treat Roald Dahl as a naïve and unworldly man who never entirely left the realm of make-believe
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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
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to