William Congreve
Bonfire of the vanities
The Covent Garden Semele uses the bad-faith tricks of the director’s shabby trade
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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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself