Stephen Potter
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library