Teaching
Teaching at Gordonstoun’s prep school
How Jeremy Black filled the ten months between leaving school and starting Cambridge
History man
Reflecting on a life in a British university
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile