Should we sacrifice principle to expediency?
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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
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures