sixtieth anniversary
The ghost of PMQs past
The biggest change to PMQs in sixty years is that the PM’s answers have got longer
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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
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone