The Woman in Black
The legacy of The Woman in Black
Susan Hill’s story remains one of the most pervasively unsettling tales in the English ghost story tradition
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
