Tuesday review Articles

As is often the case with leftwingers, JK Rowling did a better job of finding the enemy than the answer. She was right to say last week that the brilliant Hermione Granger – the real hero of the Harry Potter books, as any fool knows – was cruelly ill-suited to Ron...

Why does Benefits Street make us so angry? Yes, it exploits people, but so do such Reithian delights as ‘My Daughter The Teenage Nudist’, ‘The Undateables’ or ‘Secrets of the Living Dolls’; exploiting people for public entertainment seems to be Channel 4’s raison...

Throw a brick at a Liberal Democrat MP and you have more chance of hitting a knight of the realm than a woman. Which, if nothing else, goes to show that all the arguments against all-women shortlists are bunk. Unfortunately, what it doesn’t show is that the Rennard...

The original agreement was ‘a document designed to please the Liberal party, rather than the Liberal voter’. The larger party didn’t even take the time to put the agreement to its backbenchers, let alone the party membership. The hope was that the alliance would lead...