The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together