Charlie Walsham
Charlie Walsham is the pseudonym of a BBC employee.
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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
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
