The Lobby
Shining limelight upon twilight?
Daily televised press conferences are a gift to the media class not to government
From feral beasts to pussycats
A Lobby made man on the decline of the parliamentary press from feared newsbreakers to humdrum hacks
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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
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”