Sean Bowen
The reality shows aiming to raise racing’s profile
Racing’s leadership has cottoned on to the fact that jockeys are the key to marketing
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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
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
A plan to save our towns
Time for a renaissance in our devastated urban landscape