Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The unknown cost of Net Zero
Net Zero was signed into law with barely a debate and no clear price tag. New analysis shows the true costs are wildly uncertain
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something