Margaret Thatcher Versus The Intellectuals
The first female PM faced unprecedented vitriol from snobbish cultural bureaucrats
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
From Jargon To Incantation
An update of Roger Scruton's takedown of Leftist intellectuals is even sharper than its predecessor
The First City To Be Coventried
The Coventry raid has stuck in the collective memory for a variety of reasons
Magdalen’s Bad Old Days
RW "Bill" Johnson's memoir of the college is a rattling good read
Not Short, Not Sweet
When it comes the the novel, big isn't always beautiful
Comeback For Political Novels?
The Daily Mail's Stakhanovite sketchwriter has finally written his debut novel
Iris Murdoch, The Virtuoso Of Virtue
The letters of the great writer reveal affairs with both sexes but also an intense intellectual and spiritual life
Standing The Test Of Spacetime
The greatest scientists, such as Einstein, often made their greatest discoveries by thought experiments
Corbyn’s Trots
Entryism plagued the Labour Party in the 1970s, and is doing so again
Jeremy’s Justice
Why, in the face of the evidence, does Jeremy Corbyn believe in the innocence of Jawad Botmeh?
Acropolis Now
The world's most famous ruin has been getting a facelift
Spend, Spend, Spend!
Don't blame young people for burning through money — they've got no choice