Ben Munster
Ben Munster is a Rome-based writer with work in the New Yorker and the Financial Times. He tweets at @Ben_Munster
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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
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
