Borderland: Europe’s Eastern faultline
Rising tensions over gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean are fuelled by Erdogan’s dream of expanding Turkey’s borders
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unconquered by a
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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
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
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 government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation