Pension Pot Luck
Imagine being allowed to own your own pension. Why, you might do something silly with it.
Rondo alla Turca
Rondo alla Turca Alev Scott Counterpoints Europe 25/02/2014 Tayyip Erdoğan: His courting of the EU is a charade Slice 1 In January, the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan arrived to great fanfare
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Mali's literary heritage is at risk of destruction by Islamists bent on eradicating all art that doesn't fit their oppressive worldview
A Bee in his Bonnet
Richard Dawkins cannot grasp the distinction between knowledge and wisdom. This puts him at war not only with religion, but the entire tradition of Western philosophy
Stalin’s Retreat
British leaders should apply the lesson of Churchill's firm resistance to a belligerent Stalin when dealing with the Kremlin
No More Shrinking
There are many reasons for a dearth of women in the upper echelons of the media, but female writers first have to toughen up
Rude Britannia
The UK Border Agency's woeful inefficiency means that visa applicants are stuck in the country, without a passport and unable to work, for months on end
Basically wrong
The arguments for a basic income are as idealistic as they are simplistic. Its proponents are pursuing misguided ideals.
All go for lingo
There's an entrenched myth that learning a second language as a grown-up is a Herculean — or even Sisyphean — task. It isn’t
Tory home truth
The decline in the proportion of owner-occupiers means a decline in the number of Conservative voters