Samuel Richardson
Scribbler with a gift for women
Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’
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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
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too