How much respect does the US owe its allies?
If they want to be treated like independent nations, why don’t they act like them?
Why politics kills comedy
It constrains humour or makes it complacent
Antisemitism and the discourse of privilege
Progressives hierarchies are not kind to liberal Jews
Against the hysterical consensus
The US has to confront its own global identity
Bromides of the expert class
Question intellectual authority
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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
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency