Tony Benn
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Block votes and nutters
There was a time when the Labour conference really mattered, before it became a stage-managed platform for social media hits and soundbites
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone