Thoughts
Thoughts on the BBC: Reflections of a conservative historian
Jeremy Black ponders the place of the BBC
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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
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
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won