Waterways
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
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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
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid