William Wordsworth
Out of step with rural Britain’s history
A clarity or stridency that fails to engage with the nuances, contexts and contingencies
A vivid but oddly unresolved picture
This biography of Constable is but a partial portrait
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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
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe