tipping column
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition