The Progress Trap
A blunderbuss blast at “progressives”
Progress is too important to be left to the progressives
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer