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James Bartholomew

Hero or double agent? An encounter with Lech Walesa

James Bartholomew 9 November 2019 9:00 am

An encounter with Lech Walesa, the hero of the Solidarity movement

The awful rise of ‘virtue signalling’

James Bartholomew 7 July 2018 9:00 am

Virtue signalling is one of many phrases invented by Spectator writers (‘the Establishment’ is another). It is now in use all over the world

Indian weddings are more beautiful – and honest – than British ones

James Bartholomew 3 March 2018 9:00 am

Within an hour of our arrival, someone had tightly tied a turban around my head and I was told to…

Letter to a young Corbynista

James Bartholomew 24 June 2017 9:00 am

Caring about the poor means voting for capitalism

How the British left condoned the murder of millions

James Bartholomew 24 June 2017 9:00 am

Giles Udy did not start out with the intention of writing this book. He was in Russia about 15 years…

‘My life in a gulag’: The horror of Stalin’s prison camps

James Bartholomew 20 May 2017 9:00 am

A conversation with one of the last survivors of Stalin’s camps

What explains the idiocy of the liberal elite? It’s their education

James Bartholomew 7 January 2017 9:00 am

What explains the silliness of the liberal elite? Their education

Mark Carney has to go. Here’s why

James Bartholomew 22 October 2016 9:00 am

The Bank of England governor’s ‘forward guidance’ is reliably wrong. His other interventions are even worse

Britain’s great divide

James Bartholomew 25 June 2016 9:00 am

Brexit has exposed a huge rift between the metropolitan elite and the rest

Why the Spanish may be better off without a government

James Bartholomew 30 April 2016 9:00 am

The Spanish seem to be doing better without one

Britain needs a museum of communist terror

James Bartholomew 5 March 2016 9:00 am

We need a museum to help us remember that

No golf, no bridge, scared of champagne – it’s tough being a leftie

James Bartholomew 20 February 2016 9:00 am

No golf, no bridge, a tortured relationship with champagne… lefties deserve your sympathy, not your scorn

The one thing most people think they know about economics is wrong

James Bartholomew 16 January 2016 9:00 am

The one thing most people think they know about economics is wrong

Where’s all the joy gone?

James Bartholomew 2 January 2016 9:00 am

Britain seems to be suffering from a dearth of lightheartedness

I invented ‘virtue signalling’. Now it’s taking over the world

James Bartholomew 10 October 2015 9:00 am

I invented the term ‘virtue signalling’ in The Spectator. Now it seems to be taking over the world

How British universities spread misery around the world

James Bartholomew 25 July 2015 9:00 am

From Greece to Kenya, the worst economic ideas come from alumni of British universities

The awful rise of 'virtue signalling'

James Bartholomew 18 April 2015 9:00 am

Why do the right thing when you can simply say the right thing?

James Bartholomew's diary: Give up the Today programme - you'll feel better

James Bartholomew 4 January 2014 9:00 am

It’s amusing to see serious journalists and authors struggling to use Twitter under instruction from their newspapers and publishers. They…

Diary

James Bartholomew 16 June 2012 6:00 am

The best moment during my trip around America was at a charter school in San Lorenzo, California. Talking to a…

Secrets of Singapore

James Bartholomew 3 March 2012 2:00 pm

They learned from us – now we need to learn from them

Vote for happiness

James Bartholomew 26 November 2011 1:00 pm

More democracy, new research indicates, really does make you feel better

Krona capitalism

James Bartholomew 9 July 2011 12:00 am

Sweden was a socialist dreamland. But then it woke up

Legitimate question

James Bartholomew 2 April 2011 12:00 am

In Tokyo, hardly any children are born out of wedlock. The reasons for this are a challenge to western complacency

Swiss welfare runs like clockwork

James Bartholomew 17 July 2010 12:00 am

There is plenty to learn from the way healthcare, education and social security are managed in Switzerland, says James Bartholomew

The death of decency

James Bartholomew 13 November 2004 12:00 am

James Bartholomew on why bravery, kindness, modesty, generosity and restraint are fast disappearing from Britain — but not from George Bush’s America

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