Andrew Lownie
Andrew Lownie is a literary agent and author of Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess, The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves and Traitor King. He tweets at @andrewlownie
Open the royal files
A culture of gratuitous opacity surrounds the Royal Family
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
