Simon Jenkins
A good read but variable as history
A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed
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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 trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was