The Bar
Bar none
The fraud behind the Bar Standards Board’s “equality and diversity” drive
Professional denouncement for private opinions
We need to think twice before saying chambers can’t take on a barrister due to private opinions previously expressed, says Andrew Tettenborn
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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
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden