Friedbert Meurer
Auf Wiedersehen, Britain
A German radio broadcaster on what he’s learnt about the British
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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
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
