Samuel Johnson
Self-help with Samuel Johnson
Improving ourselves takes good principles, not mere goals
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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
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within