Simon Fanshawe
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Trans activist’s car crash interview
Repeating “no debate” for years has left these organisations unable to answer questions
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
