Setting Soviet history straight
Would Hitler and Stalin have fought so hard over a city named Tsaritsyn?
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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
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was