Sontag
Among the deathworks
On culturing culture
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
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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
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing