Corbyn
Brexit saved my marriage. Could Putin wreck it?
I went to a dinner for Toby Young, who has had some troubles of late, at this magazine’s gracious HQ,…
An easy way for the Tories to combat the Corbyn threat? Idleness
As the Tories struggle to find a policy which might appeal to their traditional supporters and not simply ape those…
Opera North’s Cavalleria rusticana is the ideal opera to take a young Corbynista to
Did you know that they used to make the Fiat 126 in the Eastern bloc? They did, apparently. There was…
Why Isis should admit guilt rather than claim responsibility
Terrorists’ guilt Sir: A small contribution to the psychological war: when the next atrocity happens, could the BBC and other…
Politics and the English language in 2017
Politics and the English language in 2017
Philip Hammond’s budget disaster
Some Budgets are historic, most are boring and a small number can be remembered as a disaster. After just a few months, Philip…
Vice TV is a con
For all its much-vaunted rebel soul, Viceland is just BBC2 in disguise, says Neil Armstrong
It’s time Cersei destroyed the Corbyn-like High Sparrow: Game of Thrones, season six, reviewed
So: Game of Thrones. Finally — season six — the TV series has overtaken the books on which it is…
Corbyn’s turn on Today was as graceful and twinkle-toed as Bowie himself
Some might say that Jeremy Corbyn is cloth-eared, tone-deaf, socially inept but on Monday morning, as the death of the…
Even Corbyn would find Thomas More’s Utopia too leftwing
Thomas More’s 1516 classic is a textbook for our troubled times, says William Cook
Letters: Nicholas Serota answers Toby Young on arts teaching
The power of creativity Sir: A rounded education should encourage creativity as well as maths, English, science and history if…
It's not Tory vs Labour; it's the party of government v the party of protest
Political party conferences have, in recent years, felt like an empty ritual. They used to be convened in seaside towns,…
Jeremy Corbyn must have brilliant spin doctors
Contrary to the sneers of what he calls the commentariat, Jeremy Corbyn has already acquired brilliant spin doctors. In advance,…
The relative experience of Roman consuls and Corbyn
One of the justifications of the House of Lords is that it embodies ‘collective experience’. That is not a quality…
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