Stephen Spender
Where are The Truly Great?
When it comes to how to live a meaningful life, the late left-wing poet Stephen Spender and Jordan Peterson exhibit a surprising amount in common
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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
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
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
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble