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Back to the wall
Despite the fact East Germany has disappeared, it continues to live on in this outstanding trilogy
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories