The Victorians
How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
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Tame Impala fails to impress
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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans